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...Thursday, Ford began three hours of talks over two days with visiting West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, discussing NATO's southern flank, Communism in Western Europe and the world economic situation. Schmidt urged the President to resist pressures to withdraw U.S. troops from Europe. On Friday Ford went to Baltimore to visit Schmidt aboard the square-rigged West German ship Gorch Fock...
...quarter of the working area normally expected at a convention. The delegates are seated in close array in the center of the arena. Behind them in the first and second loges are the alternates; then, in steeply ascending galleries, politicians and guests. Long desks for the writing press flank the specially built 12-ft.-high podium. Each delegation chairman has a red "hotline" phone to talk with the podium, which is presided over by Convention Chairperson Lindy Boggs, a Louisiana Congresswoman. When the receiver is taken off the hook, a light at the rostrum signals and the caller...
...vast greensward that sweeps from the new reflecting pool at the foot of Capitol Hill to the landmark pool stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial. Nowhere in the world is there an equal to the burgeoning cluster of the Smithsonian Institution's showcases that now flank the Mall. In late 1974 the Hirshhorn Museum of Sculpture opened to great fanfare; on July 1 the huge new National Air and Space Museum will open, encompassing the history and artifacts of flight within its walls; next comes the new annex of the National Gallery of Art, an architectural...
...bolstering his task forces Rosovsky exposes another flank. The job of dean, with its dual role as chairman of the Administrative Board, is an intricate position to fill...
...night by muttering, when his partner intoned the ritualistic "and the winner is ... ," "Indiana 86, Michigan 68" into the mike. It was the happiest night of the expected number of lives, and one of the producers of an award-winning documentary about a crazed Japanese who skied down the flank of Everest came out with the most richly bogus solemnity of the evening: "I just wanna thank my mother, the man and the mountain...