Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Franklin L. Ford, chairman of the standing committee and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, said yesterday that Bowersock's report would be the first official communication between the administration and the committee on Brustein's appointment...
...businessman, a czar, has to be in charge of the economy. Nothing is going to be accomplished until the people overseas see that somebody is in charge. Also, there are elements of leadership in the Ways and Means Committee, and they will listen to someone who speaks their language. Ford is the kind...
...with a 1,212-page The Ann Landers Encyclopedia A to Z (abdominal muscles to zoonoses), which gets down to all sorts of nitty-gritty not only about social rituals ("Prince Philip, may I present my laundress Ruth Smith") but also about bedwetting, inverted nipples and nose jobs. Charlotte Ford, Henry II's daughter, has a "book of modern manners" due out in the spring. Probably the best guide to manners in 1978 is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, a Guide to Contemporary Living, Revised & Expanded by Letitia Baldrige (Doubleday, 879 pages, plain $10.95; thumb-indexed...
...Atlanta cheerfully tells a story of going to eat lunch at his hospital's dining room some months ago. "I instinctively stood up to hold the chair of a woman colleague who had carried her sandwich over to the table. She almost cracked me in the face!" Charlotte Ford insists that she still likes the old chivalry?doors opened, cigarettes lighted. "Men are still men," she says, "the tougher of the two sexes. It's nice to have them do things...
...helped reopen the case of Peter Reilly, the young Connecticut man unjustly convicted of killing his mother. The magazine's last-page "Final Tribute" column was the last, often eloquent word on such endangered species as the country general store, George Wallace and, in the current issue, the Ford Pinto...