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...instant cures for maximum effect, Ford prefers to analyze a problem systematically, however deliberate his pace. As the recession deepened, he continued to listen and prepare for more expansionist policies, as some of his advisers urged. To his credit, he continued to take sometimes uncongenial action against inflation. He pocket-vetoed the cargo preference bill, which would have vastly increased the price of oil by requiring that...
...witnesses, for example, with George Coulouris and Martin Balsam sitting on the sidelines. Whenever one witness leaves the cabin, one of the two roundly asserts, "He did it" and the other scoffs; when the next witness leaves, they reverse roles. And Lauren Bacall produces the murder weapon from her pocket book with the most roguish look on her face since she told Humphrey Bogart how to whistle in To Have and Have...
...undergraduates in his electronics course, Physics 123. While they slump unshaven and bleary-eyed on their lab stools on the second floor of the Science Center, Horowitz stalks the room in short, quick steps, like a freshly-scrubbed Boy Scout armed with a calculator instead of a pocket knife. He pushes aside his thick, perpetually mussed hair, and talks in bursts about electronic circuits and gadgets...
...Less widely disputed was the President's pocket veto of the Energy Transportation Security Act. Backed by the politically powerful shipbuilders' and seafarers' unions, the bill provided that by 1977, fully 30% of all oil imported into the U.S. would have to be carried on tankers built in American yards and manned by American crews. Little oil is now imported in U.S.-registered tankers, which are considerably more costly to build and operate than most foreign-flag vessels. The bill would have increased federal subsidies to U.S. shipbuilders and operators, which now run to nearly $550 million...
Electronic pocket calculators until recently were expensive novelties, used chiefly by mathematicians, statisticians and scientists. But production has increased, prices are plummeting, and the rush is on. Simple calculators now cost less than $20, and some 12 million of the electronic devices were sold in 1974. Housewives are now using them to balance family checkbooks, and calculators have even begun to invade the classroom. In fact, the growing popularity of the calculators among students and teachers-even in the primary grades-adds up to one of the hottest fads in education...