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...Ford has "become the country's leading target for jokes," Show Biz Chronicler Earl Wilson wrote last week. "Gone was all reverence for the No. 1 position in the land." The Washington Post's Nicholas von Hoffman called Ford "President Klutz," "Mr. Ten Thumbs," "the Great Flub-Dub" and "Old Bungle-Foot," all in a single column, and wondered whether he would become "the first President to be laughed out of office...
...board to suggest we should share our baths." Other Britons were taken with the idea, but still found Ap practical arguments to buttress the two Tories' starchy objections. Vacationing at a hotel in Somerset, one couple forgot to turn off the taps with all their rub-a-dub-dubbing, and the water seeped into the bar. The next morning they hurriedly checked out after the other guests greeted them with the Eton Boating Song...
...Aggression. Turning the prize money over to Amnesty International, an organization that keeps tab on the number of political prisoners round the world, Lorenz was visibly angry. "My work has always been apolitical," he declared. "But I am anticapitalist. The only politician I've admired is Alexander Dub...
...dispensed an assortment of minor gifts for practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children's clothing, candy, ice cream, soft drinks and potato chips were removed-inspiring newspapers to dub Barber's concoction a "lollipop budget...
States of Ireland is essentially a plea - despite all that has happened - for the beginnings of reconciliation of the two communities, to be initiated by native moderates and encouraged by Dub lin and Westminster. Perhaps a wan hope. Britain has yet to acknowledge any debt to the people of Ireland for the past. But if it moved industry to the areas of highest unemployment and insisted that Northern Catholics get a fair share of the jobs, the atmosphere might improve dramatically. Reconciliation, at any rate, is probably Ire land's best hope of obtaining equality for the oppressed Catholics...