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Sensing Ford's vulnerability, Carter kept up the offensive. To the cheers of delighted audiences, he slashed at Ford for his failure to replace some old-line Nixon officials ("Ford has not changed the Nixon Administration"). Most of all, Carter challenged Ford to explain his income tax "discrepancies" and what he meant by saying that the people of Eastern Europe are not under Soviet domination. "Mr. Ford is hiding from the American people," charged Carter. "I call upon the American people to force Ford to tell the truth." "My God," moaned one newsman, "Ford is bleeding from every pore...
During his 25 years in Congress representing western Michigan's Fifth District, which includes Grand Rapids, Ford kept in close touch through frequent trips home. "Sometimes he would give a breakfast speech and then fly to Washington for a crucial vote and return for an evening meeting," recalls Maury DeJonge, a newspaperman who has covered Ford for many years. Many summers Ford spent two weeks crisscrossing his district in a trailer to talk with home folks. He was regarded as an effective Congressman, though he seldom bagged rich federal projects for his district. His straight-shooting constituents would have...
...bastion of the radical right, and yet there is a substantial liberal population." Lyndon Johnson, for example, took 57% of the vote in 1964, v. 43% for Barry Gold water. In 1972 Richard Nixon beat George Mc-Govern by almost exactly the same margin. All the while, Ford kept his seat with majorities of 60% or more. Even so, Jerry Ford's successor in Congress is a Democrat, Richard Vander Veen...
Buckley, 53, grew up a rich man's woodsy son who preferred bird watching to baseball. As a youngster he considered ornithology as a career and as a Yale undergraduate he kept a boa constrictor for company. But after Yale Law School he ended up a vice president of his family's oil-exploration business, where he indulged his love of travel (visiting both polar regions) and his interest in environmental problems...
Stubborn persistence in trying to follow the film's plot may raise as many questions as it answers. The following, however, is clear: a sadistic old Nazi named Christian Szell (Olivier) is hiding out in luxury among the flora and fauna of Uruguay. Szell has kept snug on fees he collected from Jews in concentration camps. To help them escape the gas ovens, he first accepted gold-often fillings from teeth, which he obligingly pulled himself-then diamonds. The diamonds are stashed in a Manhattan safe-deposit box, watched over by Szell's brother, who, as the movie...