Word: forde
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Among the seven graduates that TIME profiled in its cover story on the class of '68 18 years ago were Vernon Ford of Northwestern, Liz Stevens of Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and David Shapiro of Columbia. To see how they have maintained their sense of social commitment while coping with the pressures of family and career at mid-life, TIME Correspondents Elizabeth Taylor and Cathy Booth sought out the three Baby Boomers. Their report...
...prime weapon of last week's raid was an advanced version of the F-111 fitted with a special electronics navigation and targeting pod known as Pave Tack. Developed by Ford Aerospace & Communications and first delivered to the Air Force less than six years ago, the pod fits in the weapons bay of the F- 111 and allows the pilot to find his target in total darkness while moving at very high speed...
...raid was in fact a veiled execution attempt, it would pit the Reagan Administration against a specific presidential order and substantial legal precedent. In 1976, after public discontent over the revelations of cia assassination attempts in Chile, Guatemala and Iran, President Ford issued an Executive Order forbidding the Government from authorizing the assassination of world leaders. Both Presidents Carter and Reagan have reaffirmed that...
...heat, humidity and insects were all too familiar to Harrison Ford, 43, though his latest foray into the jungle is a far swat from the whip-cracking $ heroics of Indiana Jones. Reunited with Director Peter Weir (Witness), Ford is in tiny Belize on the Caribbean to star in The Mosquito Coast, based on the Paul Theroux novel. His character, Allie Fox, moves to the wilds of Central America to start his own civilization. As foil to the atheist protagonist, Butterfly McQueen, 75, plays a native who attributes everything to God. Fox "is the kind of American who feels his opportunities...
Previous holders of the fellowship include former President Gerald Ford, former Secetary of State Dean Rusk, former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and authors John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, William Styron, John Updike '54, Kurt Vonnegut and Robert Penn Warren...