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Throughout the most painful week of Gerald Ford's fledgling presidency, public protest continued to batter the White House. Far from easing after the first shock of Ford's precipitate pardon of Richard Nixon for any and all federal crimes committed during his presidency, the controversy grew. It was fed partly by Ford's refusal to explain further his mysterious reversal on his Executive intervention, partly by White House fumbling on whether all the other Watergate offenders might also be pardoned. Ford's inexperienced aides ?almost all of whom had opposed the timing of the pardon?were left scrambling...
...announced, he and Pat left fog-shrouded San Clemente and drove 150 miles east to the 200-acre Palm Springs estate of his friend Walter Annenberg, U.S. Ambassador to Britain. But his swollen and painful leg kept Nixon indoors, away from the 18-hole golf course and eleven gravity-fed lakes and pools. On Thursday night two helicopters carried the former President and his entourage back to San Clemente. The next morning Nixon's personal physician, Dr. Walter Tkach, flew in from Washington...
Backstage, a personal feud between Paget and Watson fed the fires of an already overheated controversy...
...spontaneous event came in Los Angeles during the May 17 Shootout between police and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. CBS affiliate KNXT had a tiny camera on the scene minutes after the shooting began. The station's live pictures of the life-and-death holocaust were then fed to other L.A. stations and to the rest of the nation. WNBC-TV in New York City has taken a minicamera into an operating room to broadcast live snippets of a kidney transplant during its two-hour evening news program...
...M.I.T. investigators fed data into their computerized model of atmospheric conditions up to an altitude of 43 miles (SSTs fly at about...