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Part of the problem is that many Britons do not yet realize quite how serious an economic problem their nation faces. Shops are packed with goods. "That casual visitor looking too intently for scars of crisis on the face of London," observes TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel, "takes the risk of being hit by a Rolls-Royce while crossing Bond Street." Britain has been able to maintain its living standard as high as it has largely because it has borrowed large amounts abroad (about $4 billion) and because Arab oil producers have deposited an estimated $2.5 billion in London...
...Ford called upon some 300 assorted Senators, Congressmen, Governors, state party chairmen and committeemen to list their top three choices for Veep. Rockefeller topped the Governors' list, while George Bush, the G.O.P. national chairman, led among Congressmen and state officials. With the support of G.O.P. conservatives, Richard L. Herman, Nebraska committeeman, opened a drive for Bush. But Ford noted that Rockefeller had not been given a thumbs-down by any group polled. Along with Laird, two other Ford intimates, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin and Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow, supported Rockefeller-and so did Henry Kissinger...
...casual and Western clothes and gathered for an evening of corn on the cob and some country music. Among the guests: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott (in a patchwork shirt), Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns (yellow, blue and white sport jacket), Senators Abraham Ribicoff, J. William Fulbright and Herman Talmadge. In a pink pantsuit, former Presidential Secretary Rose Mary Woods forgot other matters and led a bipartisan hoedown...
Waterfront Kid. George Herman Ruth (Baltimore sportswriters nicknamed him "Babe" because Ruth at 20 was the baby of the old Orioles) was not, as rumored, an orphan. His parents ran a Baltimore saloon, but by the time he was nine Ruth proved too wild for his family or regular schools to handle. He was packed off to St. Mary's Industrial School, a combination orphanage and reformatory. That incarceration proved a break for baseball. At St. Mary's, the large and lumpish Ruth caught the eye of Brother Matthias, an equally huge Xaverian Brother who taught...
Died. Johanna Davis, 36, novelist and former TIME writer; after being hit by a taxi outside her Greenwich Village home; in Manhattan. Daughter of Hollywood's much-storied Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), "Josie" Davis joined TIME in 1959 as a secretary and later wrote for its Show Business and Modern Living sections. She resigned from TIME in 1972 to work on Life Signs, a wry, witty tale of the psychic perils facing a young Manhattan mother...