Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reagan continued campaigning, with brief stops in Manchester, N.H., Charlotte, N.C., and Chicago. Meanwhile the Federal Communications Commission was heard from. Now that Reagan is an announced candidate, said a spokesman, TV stations might have to give Ford equal time if they broadcast any of Reagan's 50-odd films, or even reruns of Death Valley Days, on which he was a narrator and occasional pitchman for 20 Mule Team Borax...
While the scandal is stewing and growing and about to burst upon the public, Mo thinks of it as just another annoying personal problem. It takes her "beloved" husband away from her at odd hours. Watergate comes between them but he refuses to discuss it. Sometimes, though, she feels just a hint of foreboding...
While the 350-odd names originally submitted for the position included "a lot of good women," none of them were "very well worlds," Harvard Treasurer George Putnam Jr. '49 said this week...
...someone from outside the intelligence community, was needed to restore public confidence in the agency. Moreover, in the Administration's view, Colby had been too forthcoming in releasing secret information about the CIA's past misdeeds to the congressional investigating committees. But Ford's timing in dismissing Colby was odd indeed. Many political leaders wondered why the President had not waited until the investigations were over...
George Herbert Walker Bush, 51, comes freighted with a slightly odd set of qualifications to take over the supposedly apolitical Central Intelligence Agency-most notably, a rather active political ambition. A tall, athletic and charming former Congressman, Bush is thought to have been Gerald Ford's runner-up choice to fill the vice presidency last year. His name is now being mentioned again as a possible Ford running mate next year...