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During much of his time in office, Ford had gone flying about the country in his long-tested, but previously localized campaign style. He had made speeches and appeared in parades that seemed more fit for a Congressman than a President. The main result was to cut into the popularity ratings he had achieved after succeeding the discredited Richard Nixon. Last week, without acknowledging that anyone had ever criticized his love of local campaigning, Ford talked as though he had discovered a new political truth. Said he: "The best way to preserve the dignity of the office and the best...
...waiting area for the diverse individuals and groups who daily seek audience with the President. Saudi Arabian princes, American bankers, Jaycee delegations-all get their turn and are ushered one by one into the simple, wood-paneled presidential office. Most of the day's visitors have gone, and Marcos, only slightly wearied, is preoccupied by year-end economic projections. Says he, as aides hover around with neat folders of documents: "We thought we were going to have a whopping $1 billion deficit in the balance of payments, but we have been able to cut it by half. We made...
About 80% of the expatriate Israelis have gone to the U.S.; perhaps 100,000 of them have settled in or around New York City, and about half as many in Los Angeles. There are other large Israeli communities in Chicago and Boston and, outside the U.S., in Montreal, Toronto, Caracas and Rio de Janeiro...
That, say pro football owners, is the kind of chaos that will strike their sport if the reserve system is abolished and athletes are allowed to move from team to team at will. If so, the apocalypse is on its way. Players, who have bargained unsuccessfully and gone on strike for the right to choose where they play, are now winning their battles in the courts. For the third time in the past 13 months, a federal judge last week found the N.F.L.'s reserve system in violation of antitrust laws. This time, ruling on a suit filed...
Every kind of art collecting, from medieval ivories to Matisses, is always assumed to have had its golden age, a time when marvelous things were plentiful, and almost cheap. By definition, that age is always gone...