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...into foreign policy with a speech on food and oil. The President directed that income tax returns were not to be scrutinized except on his order-in writing. He decreed no more politics in the civil service. There was an amnesty program of sorts. Ford even found time to greet the one millionth visitor to the White House in 1974: Patti Albers, 9, who came with her seven-year-old sister Kelly...
There were and will be some noisy exceptions, of course. In Boston, antibusing forces prepared to greet this week's school opening with massive demonstrations. The protests were aimed at a court-ordered plan to transfer 45,000 children to schools in other parts of the city in an effort to achieve racial integration. Elsewhere, there were scattered disruptions. In rural Plaistow, N.H., teachers seeking higher salaries and greater control over curriculums continued a seven-month strike-longest in the nation's history-by picketing opening-day classes at the local Timberlane High School. In Racine, Wis., School...
...didn't take long for Nilon to greet the vendors next morning with more deals of going back to work and negotiating later. The union rep arrived with a high card from the mythical local's down town office, but he didn't play his hand until after Nilon spoke. Nilon immediately began threatening everyone with pink slips and court injunctions. Then the union rep took over and introduced his friend from downtown, who startlingly declared that he was against the strike, and it was the vendor's tough luck if Nilon fired people. Of course, he insisted...
...disclosures not only smudged the league's credibility but helped obscure signs of genuine fan support. Football enthusiasts in Birmingham, Ala., who tried unsuccessfully for eight years to land an N.F.L. franchise, have braved bad weather to greet the Birmingham Americans with an average paid attendance of 43,000. The W.F.L. has also drawn respectable TV ratings (averaging about 8 million viewers per week) with its midweek evening games on TVS, an independent television network...
While he served in Congress, Ford managed to get back to Grand Rapids every week. He would hold open house in a trailer to greet all the voters who failed to come to Washington to see him. "He runs the best constituent service I have seen anywhere," says A. Robert Kleiner, Democratic co-chairman of Michigan's Fifth District. "After 25 years, there's almost nobody in the district he hasn't done a favor...