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...former Governor, won her second term after a campaign in which she graciously told voters, "Let the best man win, whomever she may be." Republican Challenger William Schluter passed out thousands Of I'M A SCHLUTER ROOTER buttons, in hopes that the voters might learn how to pronounce his name???even though he had served eight years in the state senate...
...with her first husband, Leslie King, a wool trader. Ford was christened Leslie King Jr. Two years later, the marriage broke up, and mother and child returned to Grand Rapids. In 1916, Dorothy married Gerald R. Ford, a paint salesman, who adopted young Leslie and gave the boy his name???as well as his penchant for hard work, athletics and community involvement. He also instructed his stepson in a certain humility. Remember, he told the boy, someone else can always do the job better than you. The elder Ford, who died in 1962, never prospered as a businessman but established...
...about "Once I have the title..." "If" has never entered his mind. When pressed, he modestly rates himself as the "20-to-1 favorite." The prospect of earning more than $100,000 in Reykjavik has him talking about buying houses round the world. "You know, like what's-his-name???Onassis, who has his table set for him in places like London, Buenos Aires, New York." When he first started his all-out quest for the title in Belgrade two years ago, a reporter asked him what chess meant to him. He pondered for nearly a minute and then said...
...taking place. Gaza One and Haifa One were not headed toward a major airport. Instead, they were on a course toward a broad expanse of flat desert some 25 miles northwest of Amman. After World War II, the British had used the area as a training airfield, and its name???Dawson's Field ?was taken from the British commander who sent units there...
...shaven-headed Buddhist monk, Ho turned up in the Thai Northeast to organize support among Vietnamese, then traveled to Hong Kong on Moscow's orders to end a quarrel among other Vietnamese Communists. Ho succeeded: the party that he founded there in 1930 has survived?with two changes of name???down to the present. He was jailed briefly by the British, then fled to Shanghai and on to Moscow. Four years later, he was back in China, a temporary ally of the Chinese Nationalists in the battle against Japan. Early in 1941, Ho returned to Viet Nam, then occupied...