Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas Szasz will speak April 11 at Ford Hall in Boston on "The Myth of Mental Illness." If you're feeling like you're the only sane person in an absurd world, this could be therapeutic...
...AMERICAN PEOPLE VETO THE CANAL TREATY. Said a Hatfield aide: "That mailing didn't exactly pour oil on the troubled waters." At a Democratic dinner in Frankfort, Ky., party stalwarts applauded politely for Senator Walter Huddleston, who voted for the treaty, but gave a standing ovation to Wendell Ford, who opposed the accord. Conservatives in Arizona and Oklahoma talked of mounting a campaign to recall their Senators who favored the treaties-Deconcini and Henry Bellmon-even though there is no legal way for constituents to remove a Senator before his term ends. On the other hand, Brooke made...
Through the White House switchboard. Gerald Ford spoke to Republican Senators from his home in Palm Springs, Calif. At the White House dinner for Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, Carter even asked Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers to help out. She agreed and called Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker...
Across the spectrum, Jews seem united in a feeling of disappointment with the man to whom they gave a majority of their votes in the 1976 presidential election. Says Murray Wood, of the Jewish Federation-Council of Greater Los Angeles: "There's no question that Ford would get more Jewish votes than Carter if the election were held today." Adds Stanley Sheinbaum, one of Los Angeles' chief Democratic Party fund raisers: "Carter is not to be relied upon as far as the security of Israel is concerned. I do not believe he has any solid commitment to Israel...
...foreign exchange markets, U.S. inflation goes up a notch. Prices of imported goods rise, and so do those of the U.S.-made products that compete with foreign merchandise. Example: the prices of Japanese-made Hondas and Toyotas. German-made Volkswagens, even models produced abroad by U.S. makers (like Ford's Fiesta and Dodge's Colt) all have risen since October. Administration officials now say that the dollar's decline will add one-half to three-quarters of a point to the inflation rate this year...