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...first place. They were quite wrong. Betty Ford today seems to be having the time of her life. She is outrunning every word-mincing candidate in public opinion polls. She acknowledges that other First Ladies have felt overwhelmed, trapped by the White House. "It could be considered a goldfish bowl or a gilded cage," she mused in an interview with TIME'S Bonnie Angelo. "But I made up my mind that I wouldn't let it be that way. I would go ahead and live my life the way I normally would. I've done...
...that would make less exuberant Christians blush. A "battle" between two competing bus teams, spurred on by bands and flags, rocketed attendance last March 16 to a record 30,560. This fall's attendance drive has featured a man on stilts inviting squealing moppets into the church, free goldfish, and ice cream sundaes for sixth-graders. Past bait has included zoo trips, picnics, even horseback rides...
Boyd ended his speech with violent words about Harvard students. "You people are in a goldfish bowl Rocky puts us in to make us scared of what they think of us," Boyd said, "and you're being intellectually gutless and stupid not to notice...
Over the years, the White House has been declared unfit for family habitation. The Trumans called it a goldfish bowl, Jackie Kennedy grumbled that it was a barn, Julie Nixon Eisenhower referred to it as a museum. But the Fords, who never lived in a house larger than eight rooms before being catapulted into the 132-room Executive Mansion, obviously disagree, at least...
...expensively as the Los Angeles Pet Cemetery at Calabasas, which could have been the scene of Evelyn Waugh's novel; there dogs that belonged to Lionel Barrymore and Rudolph Valentino are buried, and religious rites are routinely performed at the funeral. One expensive plot is occupied by a goldfish, another by a quail...