Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential aides and secretaries and third assistant deputies all crammed into the East Room of the White House-but Jerry Ford beamed and chuckled and acted just as though he had forgotten it was his own 62nd birthday. His doctor had given him a checkup and pronounced him fit, and so did Comedian Flip Wilson, who came to the party as Nurse Geraldine in a red wig and white uniform. Nobody minded that a little fun was made of the President. On the walls there were cartoons of his spill on the steps of Air Force One when he arrived...
...Relatively close. Those are the words I hear, and I think the actions taken seem to fit...
...want to get people to accept continuing education," he says, "you have to do it in small chunks so they can fit it into their busy lives, and in specific enough content so they can really focus on it--because that's how a mature person solves problems...
...Reischauer several years ago lasted ten days, but that both the participants and the faculty involved found it too long and intensive. Nancy R. Downey, who directs the Radcliffe Institute's alumni program says that a week seems to be the right length of time because people can fit it into their summer vacation without taking too much time out of general relaxation. Since the colleges don't give any kind of credit to the participants, she says, alumni are not willing to come for larger blocks of time even if they're interested in the topic...
Finally the Jazz Workshop has seen fit to bring in somebody who at least at one time had a lot of talent. Pharaohs Sanders was John Coitrane's heir apparent as greatest tenor man after the master's death in the mid-sixties. Sanders was riding high for a couple of years, and deservedly so--few could do as much as he could with the instrument, especially in the upper registers...