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Part of Ford's failure to appear more presidential derives from his apparent inability to resist traditional barnstorming. Voters see him as campaigner often, as President only rarely. Not since Feb. 17 has he held a press conference in Washington, where the White House provides a setting still held in awe by millions of Americans. Instead, the President has opted for local press conferences, where he appears no more presidential than any other candidate...
...affair quieted down for a month. Then, in early March, David Holmes, another Thorpe chum and former Liberal official, volunteered that he had paid Scott $7,000 just before Britain's Feb. 1974 general elections "without the knowledge" of Thorpe. Party Whip Smith, never a close ally of Thorpe's, pointedly told a TV interviewer that he was "frightened by what may yet come out." But Thorpe stood by his insistence that Scott's allegations were "pure moonshine...
Scott, to be sure, was not Thorpe's only political problem. His electoral fortunes peaked in the Feb. 1974 election, when he lured enough discontented voters from both Labor and the Tories to poll an impressive 20% of the vote and won, with just 14 seats in the Commons, what looked like an ideal position on the pivot of power. But Thorpe decided against bringing the Liberals into government for the first time in 44 years and turned down a Tory bid to join them in a coalition...
Born. To Victoria Fyodorova Pouy, 30, Soviet actress who came to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 10, 1975) to see for the first time her ailing natural father, retired Rear Admiral Jackson R. Tate, a Moscow-based naval attache during World War II, and Frederick Pouy, 38, Pan American World Airways pilot: their first child, a son; in Greenwich, Conn...
After four months of deliberation, a federal grand jury last week took action in Virginia's notorious Kepone scandal, in which 70 people involved in the production of the pesticide were poisoned and the James River was polluted by the substance (TIME, Feb. 2). In what may well prove to be a landmark action, the jury indicted a chemical company, the owners of another chemical firm and the city of Hopewell, Va., on a record number of charges of violating federal antipollution laws...