Word: gerald
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...know that the university is very conservative about [managing the endowment] and occasionally we ask each other questions about that,” says Gerald Gabrielse, professor of physics and chair of the department. “But on the other hand, on balance they’ve made it work quite well...
October 13, 1973: Gerald Ford is nominated Vice President...
...GERALD FORD After decades of criticism, receives Profile in Courage Award for pardoning Nixon...
DIED. PHILIP W. BUCHEN, 85, scholarly lawyer and presidential adviser; in Washington. Buchen led a secret group in 1974 that spent three months developing a plan under which his old friend and law partner, Vice President Gerald Ford, would assume the presidency if Nixon were to resign. Ford had no idea the plan existed. Appointed counsel to the new President, Buchen advised him on the controversial Nixon pardon. "I could see that he had already made up his mind," Buchen said later, "and it was my job to find out how he could do it, rather than whether he should...
...Kidman found her singing voice quickly ("there was a real sweetness of tone from the outset," says musical director Marius De Vries), but her dancing was sometimes more Gerald Ford than Ginger Rogers. During rehearsal, Kidman broke a rib and spent weeks recovering at home in Sydney. While Cruise tended to her ("he was very good to me," she says), Kidman spent the downtime on her sofa rehearsing songs. Near the end of production, she tore cartilage in her knee while shooting the Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend number...