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Parting Words from President Ford...
...Gerald Ford, the White House has become a symbol of his defeat and a place to be avoided. Since November he has spent half of his time outside Washington-at Palm Springs, Calif., Camp David and at Vail, Colo. When he was not on Vail's ski slopes last week, he worked for several hours on the 1977-78 budget, a proposal for a $10 billion tax cut and the State of the Union message that he will deliver on Jan. 12. He also made the surprising announcement that he would ask Congress to enact legislation to admit Puerto...
...will be sworn into office on Jan. 20. With visitors he can talk and joke about his defeat and the future without much melancholy. And yet the wound is there. TIME Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey chatted recently with the President and took away the impression that Ford is not sure why his job, which he came to love more than any he had ever held, is being taken away. For fear of hurting someone, he refused to talk about what he might have done to win the election. But he was willing to talk at length about the tasks...
...Utah's Wasatch Mountains, ho tel owners riffling through sheafs of canceled reservations look out on tawny brown slopes and frustratingly blue skies. President Ford, vacationing in Vail, Colo., spends a few hours a day slaloming between exposed patches of grass and rocks, then quits to sit by the fire, going over official documents. At Idaho's Sun Valley, only limited skiing is available, so more guests than usual while away their time trapshooting, riding horses and trading volleys on the tennis courts. In Northern California's Heavenly Valley, San Francisco secretary Lani Palmer practices parallel turns...
...Idaho's 26 ski resorts, only one-Sun Valley-has even begun to function; it has skiing on artificial snow on just 2½ of its 50 runs. And in Colorado, where losses have mounted to $30 million, Senator Floyd Haskell has asked President Ford to declare a natural-disaster area. While awaiting official action, Vail Developer Peter Seibert hired local Ute Indians to perform a ritual snow dance. The results were negligible. Says Seibert: "We're getting a little snow, but it's just enough to cover up the cigarette butts...