Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time since the 33rd Congress (1953-54), when they had a majority in the House. But they are unlikely to elect enough to win formal control. Thus, aging Massachusetts Democrat John McCormack, 76 is likely to be elected to a fifth term as Speaker, and Michigan Republican Gerald Ford, 55, will probably be thwarted once again in his ambition to swap the job of minority leader for the Speaker's gavel. Whoever is President, moreover, will be in for serious trouble. A Democratic Congress, even a conservatively oriented one, would probably be hostile to Nixon; a conservative Congress, even...
Consider the plot of Tea Party, a one-acter that, along with The Basement, is being offered off-Broadway. The central figure is Sisson (David Ford), a middleaged, successful British manufacturer of bidets. A self-made man, he prizes decisiveness, precision, strength of character. A widower, he marries a genteel second wife (June Emery) and hires a miniskirted, sexually provocative secretary (Valerie French) in the same week. He invites his wife's brother (John Tillinger) into the firm. His wife becomes her brother's secretary, and the pair indulge in faintly incestuous reminiscences of days on a gracious...
...typical department may try to appoint five excellent assistant professors instead of seven excellent instructors," Ford said last night "and we are recommending that each department carefully scrutinize its non-tenured rolls...
...Dunlop Committee recommended freezing the status quo--allowing only assistant professors with three years experience voting rights, but Ford said the CEP feared that action "would look like we were giving them something with one hand and taking it away with the other...
...Ford said the question was serious enough that the CEP would discuss it separately at a meeting later this fall and ask Dunlop to appear and explain the reasons for the committee's recommendation...