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...most part, Republican politicians fell in line behind their new party chief. Vice President-designate Nelson Rockefeller, who had already urged clemency for Nixon, called Ford's pardon "an act of conscience, compassion and courage." The pardon will undoubtedly be controversial in the short run, Rockefeller said, but in the long run it will speed the nation's recovery from Watergate. "I don't think the people want Nixon to stand trial or to be convicted," agreed House Republican Leader John Rhodes. "I think Ford is trying to defuse this thing and bring us back together." Among...
...eight teams that participated in the Little League World Series and accepted an autographed baseball from the winning pitcher of the championship team from Taiwan. The evening of the press conference, the President and his wife celebrated its success at a small dinner party in the White House for Nelson and Happy Rockefeller that was attended by senior presidential aides, Cabinet members and their wives...
...Bakersfield, Calif., may offer the inspirational presences of Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. But from the point of view of new sounds, freedom and plain musical fun, Austin now definitely ranks as No. 1. Within the past two years, following the lead of such veterans as Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Jerry Jeff Walker, more than 200 musicians, vocalists and songwriters have moved to the Texas capital. Since last spring, three new country-music clubs have been built, and this month a converted movie palace will open as the Austin Ritz, a 700-seat theater devoted to country rock...
...Nelson Rockefeller is Richard Nixon with a bank account...
...Ilona Massey, 62, golden-haired, Budapest-born actress and songstress; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Massey worked her way from seamstress to chorus girl to operatic leads in Vienna, where at 25 she was signed by an MGM talent scout. In 1939 she played a sultry Russian singer as Nelson Eddy's co-star in the Hollywood musical Balalaika, later cut up on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies (1943-44) and fooled with the Marx Brothers in Love Happy...