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...autograph and the name will not register. Nicholas makes his living doing day work in movies, character bits in commercials and specialty acts at small clubs. It is a hard scuffle, but Nicholas dotes on the comfortable insecurity of the life. At least it offers a neat opportunity to fend off deeper involvement with his mistress Peggy (Françoise Fabian) and keeps an eventual reconciliation with his wife (Carla Gravina) at a safe distance. Nicholas' only deep commitment is to the dubious luxury of noninvolvement...
Publicly, President Ford tried to downplay Nixon's odyssey, saying that it had "no political ramifications at all." Privately, Ford and his aides were furious that his disgraced predecessor would accept the longstanding invitation just as Ford was fighting to fend off the challenge of Ronald Reagan in the New Hampshire primary. Because Nixon seemed to be emerging from his San Clemente exile, Ford was being peppered with questions in New Hampshire about why he had pardoned the ex-President. Said one senior White House staffer: "It's goddam humiliating. Nixon can be forgiven for trying to make...
...taking affirmative steps to end its past practice of discrimination against minorities and women. Furthermore, the HEW office in Boston, which is charged with responsibility for monitoring the affirmative action laws is itself being sued for not enforcing the law. So the affected parties are left to fend for themselves. Once again women and minorities must create pressure on the federal government and on institutions like Harvard to end their practice of discrimination and to enforce the laws...
...police, fire, sanitation. The latest cuts, however, will fall heavily on the department of social services, which is often accused of inefficiency; last year many millions of dollars in welfare checks were misplaced, lost or stolen. Meanwhile, the city's biggest bureaucracy, the board of education, tried to fend off cutbacks. Ordered by Beame to pare $39 million from its budget, the board offered to reduce school sports programs or subsidized transportation for handicapped students. Said City Budget Director Melvin Lechner: "The board is still playing games...
Emper picked off one of the only passes which came close to Farnham. Fran Cronin and Newhouse also chipped in with pass interceptions to fend off any Brown threats...