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...Susan is eagerly looking forward to the move. Last week she and her boyfriend Gardner Britt, 17, the son of a Ford auto dealer in Virginia, brought her belongings to the White House and installed her two dozen potted plants in the third-floor solarium. For their dating, "I'm looking for a back stairway for Gardner, so he won't have to go through all that stuff," Susan says. After surveying the mansion, Susan picked a suite on the third floor and asked that it be repainted yellow...
...lives, the Ford children are not likely to let their father's new responsibilities chill their ardent sense of independence. Blonde and graceful, Susan has already shown that she is in the tradition of perky presidential daughters; last week she brought along to the inaugural ceremonies Current Beau Gardner Britt, 17, who will enter Virginia Polytechnic Institute this fall. Steve was admitted not long ago to Duke University, but before settling down in college, he has opted to take a year off to work on a cattle ranch in Utah...
Indeed, says Richard N. Gardner, a Columbia Law School professor and adviser to the State Department, "1974 represents a turning point in international relations. The global agenda is now more important than traditional foreign policies. If the law-of-the-sea conference fails, it will harm prospects for other international negotiations on food, population, energy, security, trade. Caracas is a test case for man kind's capacity to deal with global problems in a rational way." Says John R. Stevenson, chief of the U.S. delegation: "We all feel a sense of urgency...
...essayist. This week he was back at his old haunt for our story on the renaissance of magic. Over the years, Kanfer has worked on enlarging his bag of tricks. He has learned hundreds of card stunts, math games and vanishing acts from his friend, Science Writer Martin Gardner, through whom he met other magicians willing to share their secrets. Among Kanfer's most prominent mentors is James ("The Amazing") Randi, who served as an informal consultant for the current story. "Steve has been a really good student," says Randi. "If he really applied himself...
...anonyms to the general public, but legends to the expanding magicians' fraternity: Derek Dingle, an air-conditioning engineer whom most magicians consider the greatest card manipulator extant; Percy Diaconis, a Harvard Ph.D. in statistics and inventor of more than 100 card sleights that have fooled professional gamblers; Martin Gardner, a science writer who can make the language of numbers appear as easy as pi (see box); Robert Hummer, a mathematical genius who would sleep on the floor rather than rearrange the cards...