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Later that evening, as workers in his national campaign headquarters jubilantly tossed Florida oranges to one another, the President warned them against overconfidence. And Political Counselor Rogers C.B. Morton cautioned: "We don't want to gloat." But in winning 53% of the Republican vote in Florida, Ford practically eliminated Reagan from the running...
...ratty tweeds; Ming vases have been discovered on shelves next to neo-Woolworth butter dishes. Emily Cadra, manager of Everybody's, recalls the time a customer paid $4 for a small glass nut dish, then announced triumphantly that it was made by Steuben. Another customer returned to gloat that her 50? string of pearls had been resold for $50. Veterans of thrift shops generally agree that there is only one major hazard of secondhand shopping. As Jean Halla of Evanston, Ill., puts it: "Don't put your coat down and walk away. Somebody is likely...
Howard Simons, 45. "Don't gloat," Simons advised his colleagues on the day John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman resigned from the White House. As managing editor of the Washington Post Simons was instrumental in launching and sustaining the paper's superb day-to-day coverage of the Watergate story. Simons, an award-winning science reporter for the Post, became managing editor in 1971, ten years after joining the paper that he and Executive Editor Ben Bradlee have turned into one of the country's best...
...just one year ago this week that Richard Nixon was celebrating his fabulous electoral sweep and seemed to stand at the very summit of power and opportunity. Hard-core Nixon haters may gloat over his fall from those heights; for most Americans it is a matter of profound disappointment. The editors of Time Inc., speaking on the editorial page of TIME's sister publication LIFE, have endorsed Nixon for President three times, in 1960, 1968 and 1972. We did so with acknowledgments that aspects of the Nixon record and temperament were troubling, but we believed that his strengths of intellect...
January 20 marked a kind of triumph for both sides. For Nixon, it was a chance to gloat and smile. He would never have to face another confrontation with the electorate and he looked more confident than he had in a long time--perhaps ever. He also talked tough...