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...strong support from blacks, whom he seriously courted for the first time in his political career. He is still coy about his plans for 1976, but it is clear that Wallace intends once again to use the Governor's mansion in Montgomery as a base for his quadrennial foray into presidential politics...
...surface success of this foray into Dixie, there was a bothersome note beneath. The trip was almost too fast. There was not that much of a spontaneous outpouring by the people of Jackson. There were some placards of dissent around the coliseum (HAIL TO THE THIEF. . . A $476,000 ERROR? . . . YOU CAN'T HIDE HERE). And Governor Waller, despite his plea for people to get behind the President and get the country moving, would not suggest Nixon was innocent of the Watergate accusations. "Always errors are made by people trying to do something . . . We live by and believe...
...first bid for immortality came for allowing 12 walks in a seven-inning game (sounds promising for the homeschool heroes so far) but his other foray into the record books was for giving up the fewest hits in a seven inning contest--zero, zip, nothing...
...first foray into "alien" male territory came in 1952 when, as a staff member of the U.S. Economics Corp., she prepared and delivered a forecast for Ford executive, then found herself presenting it in person. She was asked back for a follow-up and has not felt awkward in all-male company since. She rose to become president of U.S. Economics Corp. in 1969, engineered a merger with Lionel D. Edie & Co., then joined the American Paper Institute in 1973 as a vice president and picked up a directorship of Sears. Along the way she forged a new approach...
...White House, quizzing Nixon's closest associates in a search for those who had committed a criminal act. This time the inquiry had the official sanction of Sirica, who ordered that all evidence be turned over to a federal grand jury for possible indictment. Unlike an earlier foray into the White House?shortly after the wiretap-burglary of Democratic National Headquarters at the Watergate in June of 1972?the FBI agents this time had an imposing prime suspect: the President himself...