Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also on hand were Art Director David Merrill, Picture Researchers Suzanne Richie and Gay Franklin, News Desk Supervisor Al Buist, Copy Chief Anne Davis and four volunteers from Copy Processing, who gave up their holiday plans to process the story, fit it, and transmit it to the printing plant in Chicago. Layout Artist William Spencer hastily designed a dramatic cover illustration in case of a cover switch, but it was decided that such a change would unduly delay distribution of the magazine...
Still, no one day is likely to match the fabulous Fourth. On the eve of the holiday, President Ford urged Americans to "break out the flag, strike up the band, light up the sky." They did all that, with gusto (see color pages). On the big day itself, Ford set the tone at Philadelphia's Independence Hall, where representatives of the 13 colonies signed the Declaration in 1776. Said he: "Liberty is a living flame to be fed, not dead ashes to be revered...
...Edmund Muskie-elegant, imposing, a bit haughty but willing ("I suppose I have an appetite for almost anything in politics that is new and different"). Walter Mondale -witty, cool, eager, even though he had found that campaigning for the presidency meant he had to spend too much time in Holiday Inns ("I have checked, and they have been redecorated. That is where I would like to be"). John Glenn -a hero still, warm, attractive, a bit edgy (Aren't military men too warlike? "I have had people shot-out from right beside me. I do not want...
...paralyzed, which caused her words to slur. When these symptoms became evident, she was rushed by ambulance to Long Beach Memorial Hospital, 36 miles up the coast from San Clemente. Riding with her were her husband and her daughter Julie, who, with her husband, David Eisenhower, had spent the holiday weekend visiting the Nixons...
...Jean Smith and Eunice Shriver and Children Kara, 16, Ted Jr., 14, and Patrick, 8. They all lived off the fat of the land -cookouts at local friends' homes-endured scraped knees and capsized canoes, and at an amusement park, braved the roller coaster. As ever, the Kennedy holiday was no swing in a hammock...