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...campaigner who likes to meet people in public, has a deep sense of privacy and relaxes by taking solitary walks in the Georgia woods. Both are highly intelligent. But Carter is a quick study, introspective and contemplative; Ford assimilates information more slowly, but has an impressive grasp of complex and diverse subjects. Fred Greenstein, a political science professor at Princeton, believes that Carter is sometimes "almost too cool in his capacity to turn the other cheek," but he displays flashes of anger ("when he's hot, he's very hot"), which Greenstein contrasts with Ford's equanimity...
...President's strategists view it, the debate offers Ford two large opportunities. First, as a man with 28 years in Government, he can show himself as a leader with a broad grasp of all the issues. Ford-can be impressive in his presentation of an argument. Last February, during the New Hampshire primary campaign, he delivered to state and local officials an explanation of the new federal budget that some observers thought-remarkable, considering the subject-was outstanding in its detail and clarity. As House minority leader in the '60s, standing in the well of the House...
...record would certainly become a contentious campaign issue. As Treasury Secretary under President Nixon in 1971-72, Connally's quick intelligence and grasp of economic affairs impressed the experts. He designed the strict wage and price controls that temporarily slowed inflation but in the long run were ineffective, partly because Government directives shifted so often. Though America's European allies grudgingly admire his shrewdness in ramming through the first devaluation of the dollar in 37 years, in order to start reversing the long string of U.S. payments deficits, they almost unanimously consider Connally to be devious, arrogant...
...pictures ruled out the existence of life on the planet either. Soffen added that the lander's immediate vicinity held half a dozen niches in which conventional biology, including hundreds of life forms, could be detected in a desert on earth. "The microbes of Mars are within our grasp, if they are there," said Soffen. "There could be cockroaches under those rocks...
...Shaky Grasp. Despite the quality of his advice, there is reason to doubt Reagan's grasp of economic complexities. Some of his statements are extreme-and not only on the budget. On energy policy, he says: "We need to begin pumping every barrel of domestic oil we can get our hands on, begin using our vast coal reserves with both intelligence and innovation, and begin shifting our sights to the one sure source that will carry us through the next decades-nuclear energy." Those views are worth serious attention, but Reagan goes on to say that if all that...