Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While his father wrestles with a bearish economy from the White House, Steve Ford, 18, plans to wrangle with more manageable stock on a Utah ranch. Postponing his freshman term at Duke University, the publicity-shy son of the President will seek out the private life of a ranch hand. Despite Ford's detour from Duke, his classmates at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., apparently have no doubts about his future. He and Coed Janice Hodges were voted "most likely to succeed" by then" fellow seniors, and posed for the appropriate yearbook picture, costumed as Bonnie...
...will be living there with her parents. The Fords' eldest son, Michael, 24, is married and attending a theological seminary. Son John, 22, is working at his summer job as a forest ranger in Yellowstone National Park. Steven, 18, has decided to wait a year before entering Duke University and will work on a cattle ranch in Utah. "Dad probably wasn't too hot on that," Susan remarked, "but he would never object so strongly that he would tell Steve not to go." For himself, Steve, who has been tooling around Ocean City, Md., in his yellow Jeep...
Perhaps Nixon did so because he saw the world as a fundamentally hostile place and life as an almost uninterrupted series of crises. In the words of James David Barber, chairman of Duke University's political science department and author of The Presidential Character: "Nixon lives in a fighting world; his writing and speaking are full of the imagery of combat. He sees himself as forever engaged in battles, hit by 'terrible attacks,' in virtual hand-to-hand combat...
...Duke Law School, where he earned the nickname "Gloomy Gus" for his cautious, pessimistic, Depression-bred outlook, Nixon finished third in his class. Unable to land work with a major New York law firm (he also tried the FBI), he returned to practice in Whittier, where he met Thelma Catherine ("Pat") Ryan, who taught shorthand and typing at the local high school. They were married after a two-year courtship and set up housekeeping in an apartment over a garage...
...either side, entered the picture. This was the royal house of Stuart, in the glittering person and presence of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Young Pretender and son of the exiled Stuart King James III. The handsome, 39-year-old prince was beaten at Culloden in 1746, when the infamous Duke of Cumberland broke the power of the Scottish clans. He fled to France with the price of ? 30,000 on his head, and traveled quietly to Virginia (says Thomas) under an assumed name...