Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ultimately, Carter's success will rest on how well he deals with the issue that most distresses people: inflation. "The pocket nerve is throbbing all the time because of inflation," says Pollster Mervin Field. "Inflation is bugging the public more than anything." Former President Ford is pounding away on this issue. Ford recalls that when he left office, the inflation rate stood at 4.8%. "In 20 months under the Carter Administration, we're back to unacceptable inflation." If inflation is not brought under control, many of Carter's other accomplishments could be quickly-if unfairly-forgotten...
While Garth was helping with Lindsay's television in 1965, Deardourff joined the campaign staff to do research on issues. Deardourff, 45, is now in partnership with another TV whiz, Douglas Bailey, mostly handling moderate Republicans. He and Bailey were Gerald Ford's media experts, and though their candidate lost, they ran effective TV ads. Deardourff is as cool and managerial as Garth is gruff and feisty...
...heart of a lady fair? Be her bodyguard, or so two famous young ladies would attest. Susan Ford, 21, freelance photographer and only daughter of former President Gerald and Betty Ford, plans to marry Charles Frederick Vance, 37, a Secret Service agent and divorcee who met his future bride in June 1977 when assigned to a year's duty as a guard for the Ford family. Patty Hearst, 24, still in jail for bank robbery, is planning to marry Bernard Shaw, 30, a San Francisco cop who was one of her bodyguards when she was free on bail last...
Keller-Sarmiento was a pleasant surprise to the coaching staff here. "We didn't know how he played until he stepped on the field, although we figured with a name like 'Mauro' he might be good," Ford said...
...chairman of the Philosophy Department at Stanford University and head of a committee instituting a new program there, says, "Since the end of the war, Stanford professors have had to water down their advanced courses to explain material they used to be able to assume students understood." David Riesman, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, adds that a common intellectual experience enables students to learn more from each other. Under Gen Ed, he says, "the chance is minimal that you will be taking a course that one of your roommates is taking so you can talk about it together...