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...worries about her. Her eyes, for example. Close-set, irredeemably myopic, they tend to look out of alignment when the camera shoots her headon. If lighting, costume and camera angle are not exactly right, her 5-ft. 7-in. frame looks bottom heavy. Her voice skips from squeaky to strident without even a glancing brush at the tones in between...
...went through a long, I think, constructive process of economic summit, culminating in a program which we felt at that time would meet the primary threat of the problem of inflation. I thought it was well tuned to meet that headon, with some consideration given to the problem of economic stability...
...figures, sometimes find the data numbingly complex and even contradictory. Fortunately, they enjoy expert support from the section's head researcher, Dorothy Haystead, who, in her twelve years in "biz," has counseled, comforted and cajoled a generation of TIME writers and researchers. When figures from different sources clash headon, Haystead resolves them by a process of statistical triangulation supplemented by what Senior Editor Church regards as "a very shrewd and savvy judgment." Besides her duties as teacher and statistician, Haystead also prepares the column "Market Week" for TIME'S overseas editions. Not least, her unflappable calm steadies...
...appointed to the federal judiciary by Lyndon Johnson in 1967. He generally takes a libertarian line and has been a tart critic of Government wiretapping, restrictive anti-abortion laws and the Nixon Administration's mass arrests during the 1971 May Day antiwar demonstrations. Noted for facing judicial issues headon, Gesell has been both helpful and damaging to Nixon in the President's judicial showdowns. He rejected the Administration's attempts to stop publication of the Pentagon papers in the Washington Post in 1971, but sided with Nixon in ruling that the Senate Watergate committee had not shown...
When Ford was done testifying, West Virginia's Robert Byrd, the assistant leader of the Democrats in the Senate, declared: "I think your answers have been open-handed and frank. You have met some tough questions headon, and I want to commend...