Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White House Correspondent Dean Fischer began gathering background on Ford's deliberations during the President's recent eight-day working vacation in Palm Springs. Back in Washington last week, Fischer saw the White House mood turn sharply "from calm contemplation to grim apprehension" as the military situation in Indochina deteriorated. Pentagon Correspondent Joseph Kane, who filed on the plans for emergency evacuation of U.S. citizens and others from Saigon, found an atmosphere of bleak and open pessimism
...first, Ford literally dodged comment. In a bizarre scene, after he arrived in California for a Palm Springs golfing vacation, he laughingly ran away from reporters seeking to question him about Viet Nam. "Oh, ho, ho," he replied to the first question, as a panting press contingent chased after him. Later, in a speech to San Diego business and civic leaders, he termed the events in South Viet Nam "tragic," and called for "a new sense of national unity in these sad and troubled times." No one, Ford insisted, should "engage in recriminations or attempts to assess blame...
This is a strange time for the U.S. Government. Rarely in the past 40 years has it seemed so unable to act positively, so bogged down in its own miseries and self-pity. Gerald Ford, clonking golf balls on the Palm Springs fairways, and Henry Kissinger, pouting in his seventh-floor State Department barony, have set an example of leadership by blame. If ever there was a time to seize opportunity during crisis (a device extolled by Richard Nixon) and put on a creative foreign policy surge, it is now. The moment cries out for leadership to accept the realities...
...time we see the face that is becoming the most comic mug since Tom Dewey. Ah, yes, we think, as we watch George's tumescence, very similar to the swelling of CREEP's campaign funds. A pair of legs spreading apart, we realize, is quite analogous to the hairy palm of a politician opening up to receive a bribe. As we watch George lose Jackie at just the moment he recognizes his love for her, the lesson of the movie becomes clear: HE WHO FUCKS OVER OTHERS EVENTUALLY FUCKS OVER HIMSELF, whether it be a mindless hairdresser with a scheming...
...rest of the Crimson baseball team he captains will head for Day tons Beach on Friday for a well-deserved change of scenery. During their 8-day stay in the Sunshine State, the Crimson will play 17 games against such opponents as Milligan College, EmbryRiddle, Niagara, and the West Palm Beach Expos, the class AA affiliate of the Montreal Expos...