Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through Congress?the toughest assignment Jordan has been given since getting Carter elected. A White House task force under Jordan fired off wires to all 534 members of Congress, urging them to approach the treaty with open minds. White House emissaries were planning to ask for help from Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. Says a senior White House adviser: "A major job of lobbying and education must be done immediately ?fireside chats, the works, or we're going to lose on the Hill...
Incredibly, Berkowitz, who had so cleverly eluded police for so long, had used his own properly registered 1970 Ford Galaxie sedan as his getaway car for each attack, not bothering even to acquire stolen license plates. When New York police checked parking tickets for the murder night in the Gravesend neighborhood, they found one issued to Berkowitz; it led to his Yonkers address. They wondered: What was a Yonkers resident doing 25 miles away in Brooklyn...
...that, the American market is dominated by such massive and well-entrenched firms as International Harvester, John Deere and Ford, and Belarus will do well to meet its modest sales target of 1,900 tractors annually by 1980. It will be many years more before tractor exports have any perceptible impact on the Soviet Union's giant deficit in trade with the U.S. (more than $2 billion last year). But it seems somehow fitting that the Kremlin, having become a large and steady customer for American grain, is supplying tractors to help plant and harvest the crops...
After Nixon had said his piece we just shrugged and finished dinner. Ford became president and we didn't talk about politics much for the rest of the summer. When I came home in the fall, I asked my friends in high school what they had done when Nixon resigned, but they were not too interested in the subject and I dropped it. The malignancy had been removed. That was all that counted...
...flyers demonstrated their airs above ground: one man performed slow aerobatics in his Starduster while listening to Strauss waltzes over his on-board earphones; another, goggled and scarfed like the Red Baron himself, eased his bulbous-nosed Der Jager into the friendly skies. There were also rides in a Ford Tri-Motor to be had for a mere $10 and the Red Devil Acrobatic Biplane Squad to watch as it performed an amazing array of intricate patterns and loops and dives...