Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remarkably freewheeling session. One Polish reporter, Konstanty Jazowski, editor of a Baptist newspaper, asked Carter if he could help stop Polish Catholic discrimination against Baptists. The President ducked the question. He did so again when ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson provocatively recalled how Carter had ridiculed Gerald Ford for wrongly claiming during a campaign debate that Poland was not dominated by Moscow. Asked Donaldson: "Do you see a day when Poland may actually be free?" Visibly upset, Carter lamely replied that the Poles had "a desire and a commitment not to be dominated" and refused to answer Donaldson's follow...
...There may never be another presidential moment like the Monday night in Peking when Richard Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai toasted each other in the Great Hall and the People's Liberation Army Band No. 1 played Turkey in the Straw and Home on the Range. Jerry Ford added his chapter in Vladivostok, spending the night with Leonid Brezhnev to conclude details of a nuclear-arms-limitation agreement...
...carefully and expensively manicured lawns of Harvard Yard in the process. In his Commencement Address, Freddie Laker comments, "The line for the airbus forms right behind the Phi Beta Kappa procession." Honorary degrees are awarded to John Travolta, Nona Hendryx, Alex Haley, Jann Wenner, Larry Flynt, and Jack Ford. The highlight of the ceremony is a stand-off duel between the clam serving as Mayor of Cambridge and the "rootless" Yale Bladderball...
...Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter reasoned together a bit last week in the very Oval Office that one had wrested from the other. They gripped, grinned, patted and chortled over their special memories, plugged the glories of America and the new Panama Canal treaty, and reserved the right to gentlemanly argument just as soon as they parted. Indeed, that night, as Jimmy jitterbugged at a White House press party, the tuxedoed Ford in another part of town found a few things to quarrel over in the Carter record. Yet when Jerry flew off to Vail for the holidays, he complimented...
...another pay explosion. That inflationary threat is very real; last summer the unions tore up their "social contract" with the government and insisted on a return to free collective bargaining. Since then, they have won wage boosts exceeding the government's 10% guideline from some private employers?12% from Ford of Britain, for example. The government has been holding the line on wages for its own employees?who, counting those in nationalized industries, total 7.3 million or 30% of all British workers?but it is under increasing pressure to raise pay levels. Britain's 32,000 firefighters have been...