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This openness made his confirmation hearings before the House Judiciary Committee?which lasted a grueling six days and went into every aspect of his life???a cakewalk. At least 350 FBI agents, 70 in Grand Rapids alone, fanned out to investigate his background, but Ford instructed anybody who asked: "Tell them the truth?give them everything." Everything did not amount to very much. He had been careless about disclosing the names of campaign contributors in his last election. A discredited Washington lobbyist had accused him of accepting money for favors. By the end of the televised hearings, Ford emerged with...
...other Americans, they are outdoor people, and at least 50% of them customarily vacation within their own state. The seasons have their own sporting rhythms. On summer weekends, the traffic moves bumper-to-propeller out of the Twin Cities toward what has become a Minnesotan index of the good life???the "lake up north." The state's license plates advertise it as "Land of 10,000 Lakes," but that is an understatement. Actually, there are 15,291 lakes of ten acres or more, as well as 25,000 miles of rivers, including the Mississippi, which begins at Itasca State Park...
...same time, scientists were readying Pioneer F, a spacecraft that will take off in February on a 600-to 700-day journey to Jupiter, which could harbor life???or the precursors of life ?in its atmosphere. In 1973, if all goes well, Pioneer will send back pictures and information while it flies by the largest of the solar system's nine planets. Mars is also in for more scrutiny. The Soviet Union will probably launch Mars probes in both 1973 and 1975, and two U.S. Viking spacecraft are scheduled to land life detectors on the Martian surface...
...Beverly's recent experience?her return to work, her resumption of life???amounts to amounts to a kind of loyalty not only to her future but also to her past. She disavows nothing and rejects nothing, despite the pain it may have brought. That, after all, is Beverly's way of keeping faith with Bubbles. "You know, there's a big difference between being a happy woman and a cheerful woman," she explains. "A happy woman doesn't have any cares at all. A cheerful woman might have loads of cares, but she goes on in spite...
...only one idea in my life???a true idée fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible?the idea of having my own way. 'Control' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought...