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Like 90 million of his fellow Americans, Jim Walsh of Royal Oak, Mich., sat down with his family last Thursday night to watch the first Ford-Carter debate on their 21-in. color TV. But, unlike their neighbors, the Walshes had invited a stranger into the family room of their suburban home. Both Jim and Pat Walsh were undecided about whom they would vote for on Nov. 2. So Detroit Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold asked if he could join them for the debate, to report firsthand on their reactions to the candidates...
...degree, never gave "a minute's thought to being a college president" till she went to speak at Wells and was subsequently offered the post. Directed to cut costs without touching faculty salaries or positions, she preaches "the ethics of less." She has moved out of the oak-paneled president's office, with its marble fireplace, to more modest digs, where she plans to install a Franklin stove. Farenthold's chief academic interest is in educating women for the professions. As for her own new appointment, she notes that she is one of half a dozen women...
...hundreds of Ford signs under their seats. Nancy arrived across the hall just before the 16c battle was joined. As she seemed to be gaining decibels in the audio clash, the band broke into TV Star Tony Orlando's hit song Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. Betty turned to Orlando, who was visiting the Ford family's VIP gallery, and the two danced breezily in the aisle for a few moments. The crowd went wild. Nancy purportedly was spared the sight of her rival's triumph. "I'm nearsighted," she explained...
Five days before Roselli's testimony, Giancana had been murdered in his Oak Park, III., home by seven .22 bullets fired at close range into his face and neck. As it happened, Giancana was due to be called before the same Senate committee. The FBI now believes that Giancana was killed not because of his CIA-Castro connection but as a result of a bitter feud over dividing the Mob's spoils in Chicago...
Died. George Oliver Curme Jr., 87, pioneering industrial chemist; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. In 1914, Iowa-born Curme began synthesizing a wide variety of chemicals from hydrocarbons. The chemicals-which included industrial solvents, ethyl alcohol, acetylene for welding, ethylene glycol for antifreeze, and synthetic rubber-spawned entire new industries. In 1944 Union Carbide-which profitably developed his major discoveries-named him vice president in charge of chemical research...