Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade deficit of $28.5 billion in the year ahead. A continuing deficit of that magnitude means yet more dollars pouring out of the U.S., and that in turn is bound to lead to further wild gyrations in currency values during 1979. Warns Alan Greenspan, former economic adviser to President Ford: "The non-oil consequences of the turmoil in Iran are likely to be even more unexpected and difficult to reverse than are the oil-related problems...
...from 15,000 pregnant Wisconsin milch cows for the Iranian dairy industry to a complete telephone switching system by General Telephone and Electronics. Billions more in long-term contracts, covering such things as housing and highway construction and port development, remain still to be fulfilled by large corporations, including Ford and AT&T. Few if any civilian contracts have been canceled so far, and businessmen hope that socially useful projects like housing, hospitals and schools will survive no matter who winds up in power. Even so, many companies do not seem to know what to do. Says a Commerce Department...
MARRIED. Susan Ford, 21, photographer and only daughter of former President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford; and Charles Frederick Vance, 37, Secret Service agent who met his bride in June 1977 while guarding her father; she for the first time, he for the second; in Palm Desert, Calif...
Cincinnati Reds since 1936, Giles was named National League president in 1951, after withdrawing from a deadlocked election for baseball commissioner in favor of opponent Ford Frick. During the next 18 years, he watched his league end the dominance of the rival American League by winning 16 out of 22 All-Star games and 10 of 19 World Series. After retirement in 1969, the charming, cherubic baseball executive could still turn crusty when defending the interests of club owners. "It's all wrong," complained Giles in 1978, referring to the steep salaries paid some ballplayers. "Too much money...
Stockdale came to philosophy as a 38-year-old Navy fighter pilot enrolled in a master's program at Stan ford's Hoover Institution...