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...economic reforms to emerge from the Ford summit, and it is now clear that none will. It is just as clear that Ford will be as insular with respect to his economic policy as was Nixon--despite the gaudy show he and his experts put on in the Washington Hilton ballroom...
...first photography course cost 15 dollars at the International Correspondence school in Scranton, Pa. But her associates would come to include such major photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange. Hilton Kramer of the New York Times says that "Like Paul Strand's, her work has a double claim on our attention. It belongs to history and at the same time it is part of the contemporary scene. On both counts, it is of exceptional interest." In the past year, Imogen Cunningham has had one-woman shows at both the Metropolitan Museum and New York's prestigious Witkin...
Born. To Joanne Chesimard, 26, an alleged leader of the Black Liberation Army who is now awaiting trial for murder, and Fred Hilton, 21, reputed B.L.A. member who, with Chesimard, was acquitted of bank-robbery charges last year: a girl. The child, born in a Queens, N.Y., hospital while a contingent of uniformed patrolmen stood guard, was conceived in a detention room after Chesimard and Hilton were dragged out of the adjoining courtroom for disorderly conduct during their bank-robbing trial last December...
...plunged into the crowd, shaking hands and grinning as young girls stood on tiptoe to kiss him and muss his hair. The only discordant note was sounded by several thousand Greek Americans who were demonstrating in Grant Park across the street from the V.F.W. convention in the Conrad Hilton hotel. They were protesting U.S. policy in Cyprus, but their principal target was Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, not Ford. Demanded one placard: FORD, FIRE KISSINGER...
Seeking a new political start, Nixon challenged the popular Edmund ("Pat") Brown for the governorship of California in 1962, but was beaten by 300,000 votes (out of 5,850,000). Fatigued and haggard, Nixon mounted a podium at Los Angeles' Beverly Hilton Hotel the following morning and, to the astonishment of the assembled newsmen, lashed out angrily at them. "Just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around any more because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference...