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Jesuit Priest Donald Campion, editor in chief of America magazine, put the emphasis on the publicity involved: "If she did err it was in the area of taste, not morality." But many of those who support Mrs. Ford's views also backed her televised advocacy of them. AT LAST, A REAL FIRST LADY! exclaimed one telegram to the White House, where mail was running about evenly for and against Mrs. Ford's opinions. Added Washington Post Television Columnist Sander Vanocur: "Betty Ford should be banned from television. She is too honest. Mrs. Ford wears her defect like diamonds...
...more expedient for the public welfare than prosecution and punishment." To make such a move palatable to those who believe that justice should be evenhanded, President Ford should couple amnesty for Mr. Nixon with amnesty for the thousands of Viet Nam-era draft evaders still at large. Let us err on the side of mercy. Unless this quarrel between the past and the present is quelled, we shall lose the future...
...billion for weapons purchases and research, some $1.3 billion less than the Defense Department sought; the House earlier approved $22.6 billion. Complains Democratic Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre of New Hampshire, a Pentagon critic: "If there is a question of more strength, the Senators feel it would be best to err on the side of strength...
...Err and Grin. Blasingame also had to familiarize himself with the idio syncrasies of the Japanese game. It was most difficult for him to understand why fielders smile broadly after mak ing errors. "At first," he says, "I was appalled. No more - that's their way of concealing embarrassment." Says Nomura: "Breiza is so patient that he is almost Japanese...
...genre disappeared after World War II because the class structure mirrored in the play came to an end with that event. Implicit in the play is a great divide between superiors and inferiors, patricians and plebeians. However they err, the patricians are sanctified by wealth, birth and breeding. Whether they are openly envious or openly critical, the plebeians are content or resigned to being maids, manicurists or powder-room attendants. From the vantage point of 1973, one of the fascinations of The Women is that it is positively class-ridden...