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...three most important words in the English language are 'wait a minute.'" Since his hasty pardon of Nixon, Ford has typically moved slowly, listened widely to advice and pushed steadily on, waiting for his adversaries to slip. Reagan did so last week. Ford just puffed on his pipe. He asked the S.O.S. and Chowder and Marching Club (Republican hail fellows from Congress) to the White House for a chat. Then he sat back and listened as about 40 of them vented their views on whom he should select as a running mate and how he should run against...
...even windmills, but they have usually proved inadequate. Boston and Philadelphia still depend on a random collection of pumps and wells, and only the small Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, can boast an efficient system, which pumps spring water to a hilltop reservoir and then uses gravity to pipe it down through the town...
...Sewer Pipe. Last month, on the day that Campbell was to meet with them, the guerrillas released his son and Harrell in Port Sudan. No money was passed. The State Department apparently played no role in the release, though it now says cryptically that it carried on "unremitting" efforts to free the men by negotiating through governments that have contact with the rebels. Harrell returned to his family in Milwaukee. With his Ethiopian wife, Steve Campbell flew home to Bettendorf and exulted: "I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. I had no idea there could...
...Joseph Kagan, chairman of Gannex-Kagan Textiles and a longtime personal friend of Wilson's: a life peerage. Kagan is best known in Britain as the manufacturer of the Gannex "mac," as much a part of Wilson's attire as his ubiquitous pipe...
Usery typically begins a negotiation with an unabashedly patriotic appeal to both sides about the moral obligations of making collective bargaining work. If the parties seem particularly antagonistic, Usery will stoke up his meerschaum pipe and keep everyone together for a session of stories and jokes. "We might spend an entire day talking about women," he says. "It isn't bargaining, but it's something everyone can agree...