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...Coal Corp. is clearing a 3,000-acre site on both sides of Highway 34, barely a mile east of Galatia, for a new deep-shaft mine. The company plans to invest $185 million in the venture, which will employ up to 700 miners-all nonunion. Many towns would greet such an investment with enthusiasm. Galatia...
When he was the nation's 38th President, Gerald Rudolph Ford acquired an unwanted, and perhaps undeserved, reputation for stumbling, bumbling and bumping his head upon leaving presidential aircraft. So it was entirely fitting that, stepping off Air Force One to greet Ford in his home town of Grand Rapids, the 40th President collided with the 38th and almost stumbled down the top step. Once on the right foot, the ceremonial opening of the Ford museum last week was a fitting tribute to the man who helped rescue the honor of the American presidency from the ignominy of Watergate...
...finest minds. "To the people who work for her and with her, her vitality, generosity, and warmth in this cool culture are all the more welcome." David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus, says. Relaxing in the Faculty Club dining room, she must interrupt herself regularly to greet friends, and one scholar unabashedly gives her a big hug and kiss. "She knows the place, gets around a lot, and reports the news very straight every time." President Bok says...
...note, the eleventh meeting in the past four years between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. The mood was more somber than at most of the previous encounters: there were no exaggerated compliments, no excessive expressions of confidence, no crowds of cheering Egyptians to greet the visitors from Israel. But the two-day meeting in Alexandria did serve to reduce the tensions that had been building over the past three months. And it produced one accomplishment: a commitment by the two men to resume the long-stalled talks on autonomy for the 1.3 million Palestinian...
...work. One of Sadat's daughters, Mrs. Mahmud Osman, is taken ill. Brandon, in the calligrapher's office, rearranges the seating plan. Shortly after 7 p.m. the arrivals commence at the White House diplomatic entrance on the south side. Either Brandon or her assistant is there to greet them when they enter the mansion...