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...took her down too. With him, she retreated to San Clemente, and in her despair she did not even communicate with her closest friends. For a while her daughters, always anxious about her welfare, comforted her. When they were away, she sometimes tried on dresses she had saved from happier times for what she thought would be a serene retirement. Once when she ventured out the door, a photographer's plane flew low overhead. She fled back inside, as if in protest against all the forces that have conspired over a lifetime to deprive her of her privacy...
Nobody was happier than the Republicans, who found their prospects for the November elections transformed almost overnight. The party was "taking solid food again," observed Washington Post Columnist George Will. "We're in business!" shouted G.O.P. National Chairman George Bush. At Washington's Federal City Club those two chroniclers of reality in American political life, Richard M. Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg (in This U.S.A. and The Real Majority) eyed each other over lunch and began to rethink their thesis for their next book. "How's this for the introduction?" asked Wattenberg. " 'It has been...
...cost of living increase." He has probably hardened that humane view now that the inflation rate has soared beyond 12%. Ford is steadfastly opposed to the reimposition of economic controls and thinks that Government trustbusters and regulatory agencies should go easier on big business. He "would feel happier with virtually no tariffs" on goods imported into the U.S., provided that America's major trading partners are willing to tear down nontariff barriers to the free exchange of goods...
...think we rank second in the league, although the standings read differently," Harvard coach Jack Barnaby said. "I never felt happier about a team--it was just a hard-luck team. The only time we looked bad this year was when we were sick, and against Princeton you could say there was victory in defeat because we played so well...
There are certainly millions of people who have better digestion, pleasanter marriages, more genial friendships and happier lives in general because they have learned to use alcohol at the right time and the right place judiciously...