Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of days next week. Connally is only 59 or 60 and may be keeping his hat in the ring for a presidential bid in 1980. (Connally lectures on Wednesday, March 16, at 8:30 in Science Center B.) He steered a neutral course between Reagan and Ford up till the convention, and may have actually benefitted by Ford's defeat and the shambles in which it left the Republican Party...
Connally is in danger right now of slipping into elder statesman status. Most Republican leaders, Gerald Ford among them, probably suspect he has yet to tell all about his Watergate ties, and so are afraid to pick him as a national candidate. (Hence Robert Dole.) During the election Republicans utilized Connally's ties to big money more than they did his campaigning ability. Ford even offered him the chairmanship of the party last year, but Connally declined this one-way ticket to the backstage and out of the national spotlight. Connally is too ambitious to be sent...
...when he was running for president, Jimmy Carter promised to reduce America's burgeoning defense budget by $5 to $7 billion. Carter's first opportunity to follow through on his campaign pledge came last month, with the submission of his administration's proposed amendments to former President Gerald R. Ford's defense budget for fiscal 1978. But the amendments Carter submitted to Congress last month are a disappointment to those of us who hoped for an aggressive challenge to Pentagon demands for higher spending, and a poor prelude to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) scheduled to resume in Moscow...
Maynard, a past member of the Nieman Selection Committee and a panelist in the second Ford-Carter debate, said only about 1 per cent of journalists on the major newspapers in the United States are either members of minority groups or women, while 3 per cent of doctors and lawyers are members of those groups...
...skepticism, in its present maturity, turns out to be essentially political in its aspirations. Its successes include the very existence of the Environmental Protection Agency and, as a particular example, the EPA'S recent action obliging the Ford Motor Co. to recall 54,000 cars to make sure that they meet emission standards. Skepticism can be credited with last year's California referendum on nuclear power; the fact that the voters did not veto nuclear expansion misses the point, which is that an arcane subject hitherto considered the sole province of the scientist and engineer was submitted...