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...White House staff has become accustomed to a new kind of presidential daughter. Susan Ford, 17, declines to alter her casual style. After classes, she changes from her skirt-and-socks school uniform into baggy white painters' pants with a Charlie Chaplin fit and an equally ill-fitting plaid shirt. Her third-floor world burgeons with plants and needlework (she made patchwork quilts of heirloom quality for special friends this Christmas) and her new hobby, photography, for which White House Photographer David Kennerly gives professional advice. She is cautioned against making demands on the domestic staff, so when...
...those days before the election, Gerald Ford danced across the great American political stage like Fred Astaire out on the back lot of MGM. Sometimes in tux and shiny slippers, other times in button-down and plaid, always with a smile, a beefy victory clasp and a quip, he shuffled along to the chants of the airport crowds, the brassy tunes of high school bands and occasionally a dance combo...
...Plaid-Jacket Firing...
...sympathy goes out to Photographer Kent Henderson of the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, who was sworn at by Richard Nixon. Being assigned to photograph a President can be hazardous to your health and wealth. I know. I was fired by Nixon and his cronies for wearing a plaid jacket [during the swearing-in at Nixon's second Inauguration]. At least Henderson still has his job. I would rather have been "cussed out" than...
...wealth in the south. Westminster will thus be under continuing pressure to give greater autonomy 'to the region. Other regional parties also fared well. The Ulster loyalists retained ten of Northern Ireland's twelve seats, including one taken by renegade Tory Enoch Powell, while the Plaid Cymru gained one seat in Wales, for a total of three...