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Neither Ford nor his shaken staff moved effectively to calm the controversy or dispel the doubts about the way in which the President had reached his decision. For a time, the initial confusion was compounded. Ford authorized his acting press secretary, Jack Hushen, to inform reporters that the "entire matter" of pardoning all Watergate defendants, including those already convicted or imprisoned, was "under study." Incredulous, Chicago Daily News Reporter Peter Lisagor asked: "Is the White House aware of the impact of this statement?" Hushen assured him that...
...occasion is the opening of the church's 16th temple, a $15 million structure that rises spectacularly out of green woodland in Kensington, Md., near Washington, D.C. As with other temples before it, the Washington temple is being opened to visitors before its November dedication in part to dispel any suspicion of bizarre rituals inside...
Amidst the flurry of its fact-finding--about concentration patterns, discrepancies in the prize money available to, and won by, Radcliffe students, women who are older than the usual college age and minority women--the OWE cannot help but make a difference for women at Harvard. Facts help to dispel myths, or at least to make them comprehensible...
Vice President Ford, arriving for the luncheon, did not dispel that atmosphere. Ford reported on the Cabinet meeting and left the impression that Nixon was far more concerned about the economy than about his Watergate weakness and would not resign. As the angry Senators plunged into a free wheeling discussion of Nixon's plight, Ford felt...
...President's talk proved that despite his politically successful fling with the easy-money, deficit-spending ways of Keynesian economics, he has returned with some relief to that "oldtime religion," with its emphasis on gradualism, balanced budgets and monetary restraint. Yet the message is not likely to dispel the public's thickening gloom about the economy...