Word: forde
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...however, Garn and Nelson were mere junketeers, politicians who wangled a trip into orbit largely for the sake of going up--or, in the case of the famously space-sick Garn, throwing up. Glenn is no mere joyrider. "John has worked hard to prepare for this," says Senator Wendell Ford of Kentucky. "He's not doing it for the publicity. He is doing it to make a contribution...
...institute is jointly sponsored by the American Repertory Theater and the W.E.B. Dubois Institute. It was launched in November 1997 with a $1.5 million challenge grant from the Ford Foundation...
Gergen continued in various high level roles inthe Ford and Reagan administration and returned tothe White House in 1993 to act as a counselor toPresident Clinton...
...Byck killed a policeman, an airline pilot, then himself in a failed effort to hijack a DC-9 that he planned to crash into the White House. In 1975 agents evaluated Sarah Jane Moore and decided she was not dangerous. Then she fired a gun at President Ford. "Washington is kind of a mecca for nuts," says a federal law-enforcement officer. "Disturbed people go there because they think that's where their problems are emanating from...
...could have helped cause the crash. I was close behind the car, as much as 10 meters, and my driving may have caused it to swerve and lose control." Levistre, a truck driver by profession, said that last Aug. 31 he was speeding in a dark gray Ford Ka through the Paris underpass where the princess's car crashed. His comments came in an interview with investigators working for journalist Nicholas Farrell, who is writing a book on the crash, the paper said. But Farrell said: "In no way can it be suggested that Levistre was responsible totally...