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...change in the landscape is already remarkable. In 1976 President Ford scored mightily when he blasted his Republican primary challenger for merely talking about the "most extreme and irresponsible blueprint for back-door socialism that I ever heard." Ford's challenger was Ronald Reagan--and all Reagan had done was point out that "some economists" had suggested the system might be saved if Social Security funds could be invested in the stock market, exactly the same "fix" being proposed today...
...cancer is beginning to come out of the closet. Fifteen or 20 years ago, you couldn't even mention the word prostate in polite mixed company." Indeed, popular awareness of prostate cancer may now be at a stage similar to that of breast cancer two decades ago, after Betty Ford and Happy Rockefeller revealed publicly that they were victims of a cancer that until then had been discussed only in private, and urged women to have mammograms...
...effectively a Forbes campaign, a six-month promo for the candidate's business magazine. In the long run, the boost in name recognition for his publication could well be worth more than the $30 million Forbes spent on the race. (Compare it, for instance, with the $150 million Ford Motors spent last year to relaunch the redesigned Taurus.) But to realize the advantage, Forbes may have to return full-time to publishing. In the first two months of this year, while he was away from the office, ad pages dropped 23% from the comparable period...
...Shawn Ford of Arizona State topped DeNunzio in the 126 pound weight class...
Though he didn't have a cure-all flat-tax proposal, Henry Ford was another millionaire who had an answer for everything. Some of his convictions: "'If you will study the history of almost any criminal, you will find he is an inveterate cigaret [sic] smoker...I do nothing because it gives me pleasure...Most of the ailments of people come from eating too much...Salt is one of the best things for the teeth. And also for the hair...I do not believe in charity...There is something sacred about wages...Reading can become a dope habit...