Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party organization-traditionally dominated by conservatives-Ford has been playing the elder statesman. By Christmas, he will have logged more than 200,000 miles lecturing college students, playing in golf tournaments, and attending public gatherings. His strategy is to stay as prominent as possible, so that he can move fast if Reagan announces his candidacy. Observes David Liggett, Ford's 1976 coordinator in California: "It's like they are playing a giant game of chicken, speeding at 110 m.p.h. at each other, each thinking the other is going to swerve...
...just happens to have 39 million people in it. Once regarded as an impetuous, dandified mediocrity, he has become more cautious since he succeeded Gamal Abdel Nasser as President in 1970. He usually makes decisions slowly but, as last week's events proved, he can make them very fast as well...
...tiny community," he likes to recall. "The main drag was a transvestite, and the average age was deceased." Nightwork hampered his high school studies, but not his education. "I encountered a whole different element-people a lot older than me, pool hustlers and Mafioso types. I grew up real fast...
...that leaves no worlds to conquer at home; in recent years much of the chain's fast sales growth has come from shopping by foreign tourists. Oddly, they include many Arabs-though the chain's top officers are such fervent Zionists that Marks & Spencer is on the Arab blacklist. Middle Eastern customers must snip the St. Michael's label out of the clothing they buy before bringing their purchases home. Still, M & S has seen fit to post signs in its main branch stores warning against pickpockets in English, French, German, Arabic and Farsi (the main language...
...prominent American apologist and explicator in Paris since CBS Commentator David Schoenbrun left in 1962. Salinger presides jovially over several music and film festivals in France. He is a regular commentator for Europe One's French radio station and frequently appears on French television. He has become a fast-selling author in France. From Le Mans to Marseille, he is much in demand as a lecturer (at up to 5,000 francs an appearance...