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Their conversations lately have turned to the acceptance address Ford has been working out with his speechwriting staff. The President, who has reviewed all 14 acceptance speeches from both parties since 1948, has tentatively decided to come out swinging, with an oldfashioned, give-'em-hell partisan stem-winder. Rather than concentrating on making peace with Reagan, he probably will try to unite the party by declaring war on Jimmy Carter. Some of his advisers have urged him to recognize his shortcomings as a campaigner, to remain "presidential" and above the fray in the fall and to let his running...
...Andrew, do you realize that you're a gutless chameleon?" asked Teacher Jim Searles of the shy, withdrawn teen-ager who had come for an interview at the Hyde School in Bath, Me. Andrew was close to tears, but Searles was only following the sock-it-to-'em pedagogic philosophy of his boss, Hyde Founder Joseph Gauld, 50. Faced with a rebellious applicant, Gauld once shouted, "Listen, I'm telling you either change your attitude around me or I will jam it down your throat...
...duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union consciousness presses for its share of the surplus! The boff 'em, sock 'em bout of the century...
...immobile dramas of sex, bizarre fantasy, even suicide-just about anything that will make a jaded passer-by stop and look. Explains Candy Pratts, 26-year-old window designer for Bloomingdale's in New York: "You've got to reach anybody who walks by and zap 'em...
...concert tour of the colonies that starts this week. "Last year I made Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst-Dressed Women' list, so this costume is in keeping with my image," says the singer-composer, who will sport beaded red and white striped knickers, as they call 'em in London, beneath his robes. Elton's tour, which he has dubbed "Louder Than Concorde But Not Quite As Pretty," has already sold 136,000 tickets at Madison Square Garden after a single day of radio commercials. So are these sartorial shenanigans necessary? Jokes John: "It is easier...