Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presidential election were held again, there would be a different winner: Gerald Ford by a solid margin. That is the finding of a survey of 1,020 registered voters completed last week by the opinion research firm of Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. Of the Democrats, Republicans and independents who were queried by phone, 45% favor Ford, 37% say they would vote for Carter and 18% are undecided. A surprising 28% of the Democrats say they would now vote for Ford; 17% are not sure. Further, Carter has lost the independent vote by 2 to 1 and is even edged...
...saber rattling that almost seemed to fulfill a script lightly pondered last fall by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Talking to some congressional aides, Brzezinski said it might be good for Carter if he were to have a "Mayaguez," recalling the ship seizure by Cambodians in which Gerald Ford counterattacked with Marines and raised his prestige. It might, suggested Brzezinski only partially seriously, show Carter's resolve...
...strongly pro-Greek U.S. Congress then imposed an arms embargo on Turkey over the objections of Gerald Ford. Turkey, in turn, reacted by shutting down 26 American military installations...
...Working is nothing new in my life. I just never got paid before," says Charlotte Ford. But two years ago, Henry Ford II's elder daughter set up her own Seventh Avenue business and at about the same time started doing a little writing. The result: Charlotte Ford's Book of Modern Manners, scheduled for publication next spring. "It's completely different from Emily Post and Amy Vanderbilt, says Ford, 37. The book gives tips for roommates of the opposite sex ("They should split the rent and put both their names on the mailbox"), and advice...
...fact is that Jimmy Carter and his entourage bore the Washington press corps," Hess writes in the Washington Post. "Reporters in the capital have had a steady diet of excitement in recent years-with the exception of the brief Ford interregnum-and have come to require bigger and bigger doses of news intoxicants." Certainly neither Vance nor Brzezinski is as fascinating as Kissinger (their side comments are never as memorable as his), and Carter isn't as outlandish as Lyndon Johnson or as malignant as Nixon. What to do then...