Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evening early this week mild-mannered Cyrus Vance suddenly changes from a charming, relaxed dinner partner to a tough diplomat on the run. The new Secretary of State excuses himself from a White House gala honoring Mexican President José López Portillo, dashes into a waiting Ford sedan, strips off his black bow tie and-in the pre-midnight dark -speeds south to Andrews Air Force Base. Within minutes, he is airborne in a specially outfitted Boeing...
...thing Vance is sure to be hearing from nearly every Israeli is that their country still needs more financial aid from the U.S. in addition to the $280 million President Carter seems ready to add to the $1.5 billion previously approved by former President Ford. Israel would also like speedy delivery of the extraordinarily lethal CBU-72 concussion bombs that Ford had promised; delivery is now in doubt because Carter has asked the State Department and Pentagon "to analyze the political and military consequences of the sale...
...good to be back," exclaimed the most famous member of the Yale Law School class of 1941. Visiting the university campus on a three-day Chubb Fellowship, Gerald Ford talked with students about politics and public affairs. One of his regrets as President, he said, was his refusal to meet exiled Soviet Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn in July 1975, a decision that he maintained was a matter of "logistics" rather than policy. Ford emotionally embraced retired Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, 74, who in 1935 hired Ford as his $2,400-a-year assistant, thereby enabling him to study law. Football...
...printed photos of a brunette being ravished by a snake, a pictorial feature of a nude woman 8½ months pregnant, and gruesome illustrations of various genital and gynecological oddities. The cartoons seek sick snickers in such topics as castration, excrement, bestiality and, in one memorably tasteless panel, Betty Ford's breast cancer. Every issue features photographs sent in by readers, displaying the private parts of their wives and girl friends. "We are genuine entertainment with no pretensions," says Flynt. "We have proved that barnyard humor has a market appeal...
...Though the board contains liberals and conservatives, the nine members present were unanimous in recommending a drastic policy focused on sharply higher energy prices and taxes. Observed Alan Greenspan, who rejoined the board after having been on leave for 28 months while he served as chairman of President Ford's Council of Economic Advisers: "On energy, there is little division among economists. The division is between economists and politicians...