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...holdover from the Ford Administration, McLucas resigned last week?as previously planned???from the post of FAA Administrator. As his successor, Jimmy Carter has nominated Langhorne M. Bond, 40, the secretary of the Illinois department of transportation. Bond will have the job of finding ways to develop the necessary devices and programs to reduce even further the hazards of flying. Then Bond will have to persuade and direct the nation's great airline companies to do what is best. It need not be that difficult an assignment: as a whole, the industry has been willing and often eager to spend...
...Monday-morning headlines blared the Schlesinger and Colby firings. When Rockefeller reached his office at 10 a.m., an urgent message from the White House asked him to rush his letter over earlier than planned???by 10:30 a.m. The surprising Rockefeller withdrawal was immediately announced to reporters. By the time Ford went on TV at 7:30 p.m. E.S.T., the only real news was the substitution of Richardson for Morton...
Ford's career was progressing just the way he had planned???one careful step at a time?until it was given an upward jolt by some of his impatient colleagues. After the 1964 Democratic landslide thinned Republican ranks in the House, a group of Young Turks decided that a change of leadership was necessary to meet the challenge of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. They urged Ford to run for House minority leader against Incumbent Charles A. Halleck of Indiana. After a vigorous campaign, Ford eked out a narrow, six-vote victory in the Republican caucus...
...weeks ago, however, the case seemed to be coming to a happy conclusion. To comply with the instructions of the S.L.A., the Hearst family and the Hearst Foundation (which mainly backs medical charities) passed out free food worth about $2.3 million?some $300,000 more than had been planned???to poor people in the San Francisco area. Hearst also talked the directors of the Hearst Corp., which publishes eight newspapers and eleven magazines (including Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar and Good Housekeeping), into putting an additional $4 million into an escrow account in the Wells Fargo Bank. If Patty is released...
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