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Three weeks ago, Ford sent letters soliciting the opinions of nearly 6,000 G.O.P. delegates, party leaders and officeholders. A week later, two dozen fatter letters went out from the White House with detailed legal, medical and financial questionnaires to an array of possibilities, ranging from Northeastern Liberal Elliot Richardson to Texas Conservative John Connally. The two dozen receiving the bulky envelopes were officially under presidential consideration...
...ELLIOT RICHARDSON, 56, faded. The Commerce Secretary has held a record four Cabinet posts and yearned to be Vice President. Though he remained on various lists till near the end, his liberal image and stodgy stump style foredoomed him. Richardson missed a White House call notifying him that he had been bypassed and, as he tried to return the call, learned from a passer-by that Dole had been chosen. If Ford is elected, Richardson could become Secretary of State, but he concedes that "I may be looking for a job in November." The opposition that he evokes from...
...Liverpool, in a house on Highgate Avenue, Frank and Nora Elliot pick at each other like vultures who cannot wait for death to sate their appetites. They tear away while the flesh is still warm...
Alpha Beta covers a decade in the Elliots' marriage, starting in the early 1960s on the day of Frank's 29th birthday and ending after their separation, with Nora first threatening, then retreating from suicide. Alpha Beta was originally a successful play by Scenarist Whitehead, and its three episodes still seem very much like short, jagged acts. The whole feeling of this small, stormy movie is enclosed, constricted. No effort has been made to enlarge the action of the play, but the theatrical qualities of the writing are not emphasized either. Director Anthony Page stages most...
...number of new names as vice-presidential possibilities, including that of such a nationally unknown Senator as New Mexico's Pete Domenici, 44. Also on new Ford lists were Ambassador to Great Britain Anne Armstrong, 48, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills, 42. Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, 56, would deflect most Watergate-related attacks by virtue of his Saturday Night Massacre heroics. Treasury Secretary William Simon, 48, would draw attention to Ford's success with the economy and is a strong manager. Besides, cracked a wag during a meeting with Ford: "Simon's perfect...