Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electoral votes and 57.5% of the population. Recent Re publican gains in Florida's legislature and the narrow loss of a Rhode Island congressional seat that had been Democratic for 33 of the past 35 years point to continuing strength. "The momentum," says House Minority Leader Jerry Ford, "is still running...
There have been some changes already, of course. The cost of living has risen by about 25% in the past six months, and shop owners have had to reduce (but not cut off) their imports of luxury goods. There is a shortage of both new and used cars; the Ford assembly plant in Salisbury has had to curtail production because of a shortage of parts, and the nearby Rover plant has started turning out Japanese Isuzu trucks to replace the British lorries it once assembled. Tobacco, once Rhodesia's principal source of foreign exchange, is now piling...
...Odds. Whatever the lack of talent, there was no shortage of optimism. Whitey Ford couldn't get anybody out, Mickey Mantle was not exactly a gazelle at first base, but Manager Ralph Houk bravely insisted: "We should finish in the first division." Oddsmakers figured otherwise: they picked the Yankees to finish no better than sixth and picked the Orioles as strong favorites (at 2-1) to win the American League flag again. The National League race, as usual, figured to be tighter. A lot of smart money was on the Pittsburgh Pirates (at 12-5), but the San Francisco...
...University of Michigan winnowed through a list of 200 candidates before choosing Wisconsin's Chancellor Robben Fleming as its new president (TIME, April 7). Last week Haverford College finally settled on Ford Foundation Executive John R. Coleman-after a search that lasted 19 months, involved 125 candidates...
...While Ford likens the Dunlop committee to the Committee of Eight -- he expects the new committee will eventually be called the Committee of Seven -- Dunlop pointed out that the President from time to time appoints a committee such as this one which do not all recommend such fundamental changes. Dunlop himself served on one in 1950, which decided to end the obligation of Faculty members to contribute a share of the money for their pension fund...