Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...failing to remember the name of Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. As related by the recipient of the call, Republican Congressman Dan Kuykendall of Tennessee, Nixon thanked him for his longtime support and seemed concerned about his own future. "Do you think the people are going to want to pick the carcass?" asked the former President...
Restoring Confidence. Whatever personal reservations he may have had, the country was plainly relieved and approving. After a series of numbing shocks to the system, a new team was in place in the White House. To restore national confidence, it was necessary to pick the best man for the vice presidency, and few would deny that Rockefeller fitted that description. After reviewing his record in private enterprise, diplomacy, the Federal Government and as Governor of New York, President Ford put him at the top of his list. "The President was not looking for the survival of the Republican Party...
President Ford dispatched an Air Force 707 to bring the body back to the U.S. and pick up Davies' two children, Ann Dana, 20, and John, 15, who had been sent to Beirut for safety when the Cyprus fighting began on July 20. Their mother died of cancer only last year. Both Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger were waiting at Andrews Air Force base when the plane landed, and five howitzers boomed a 19-gun salute. Ford hugged the children and said that their father had embodied the "best of time, effort and competence." Posthumously, Davies...
Struggling Cowgirls. "Rodeo is tough," says Steer Wrestler Walt Garrison, who doubles as a Dallas Cowboy running back during the football season. "You got to be in good shape." The cowboys are all business as they wait their turn to compete, watching the action to pick up pointers or carefully dowsing their gloves and chaps in resin to improve the grip. "These fellows have changed a lot," says Frank Barrett, rodeo doctor at Cheyenne Frontier Days (attendance this year: 101,000) for 23 years. "I can remember when cowboys used to squat down and drink up before riding. I treated...
...shadowy world of illegal pro-football betting, they are known as "readers" - informers who funnel inside information on a team's physical and mental condition to bookies and oddsmakers (TIME, Jan. 14). Most bookies have to settle for readers who pick up their dope secondhand from players, coaches, owners or even locker-room attendants. Now two big-time operators in New York City stand accused of using the best kind of reader available: the official orthopedic surgeon of the New York Giants...