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After a last, 20-lap swim in the pool of his Alexandria, Va., home on Monday morning-soon afterward, the Fords moved into the White House-the President began his exhausting week. He flew to Chicago aboard Air Force One to address the Veterans of Foreign Wars. It was Ford's first out-of-town trip as President, and he and his wife Betty were greeted at Chicago's O'Hare Airport with a flubbed announcement. "Ladies and gentlemen," a voice intoned over the airport's loudspeakers, "the President of the United States and Mrs. Nixon...
Environmentalists are appalled. Indeed, the Sierra Club, knowing that a Class II designation implies "significant deterioration" of clean air, threatens to go to court to overturn the EPA'S plan. Eventually, the increasingly complex issue may be tossed back into the lap of the Congress, where lawmakers may well amend the Clean Air Act to take into account an important factor ignored in the original legislation: economic needs. That kind of uniform federal regulation-coupled with continuing safeguards against overall deterioration of the air quality in the U.S.-would clearly be preferable to the legal confusion invited...
...Shut up." Moments later he paused and clonked something below. Left-wing kibitzers in the studio audience? No, Buckley's target was his King Charles spaniel Rowley, which he had brought to the studio. Showing that he bore no ill will, Rowley then jumped into Buckley's .lap and planted a slurpy kiss on his cheek. All of which left Hentoff with somewhat more of an interview than he had expected. Said the show's producer later, "You can hear barking on the tape...
...least one was-Sally Kellerman, 30 pounds overweight then and always unhappy in love. "I would sit on Jack's lap and pour out my heart to him," she says. For sustenance they would go to the supermarket for some "sweeties and souries"-ice cream and potato chips-and gorge between traumas. "Jack was the funniest man in the world," Kellerman recalls, "and always available when I needed him-a true friend...
...rival on the big national stories, especially in the years of Viet Nam and Watergate. Reporter James R. Polk did win a Pulitzer Prize this year for a series on the financing of the 1972 Nixon campaign. But the Star-News' most notable recent exclusive fell in its lap: an interview with the President right after his 1972 victory, granted in retaliation for the Post's Watergate digging...