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...widely discussed account of Ford's first 100 days, Reeves calls Ford's rise to the presidency "a triumph of lowest-common-denominator politics, the survival of the man without enemies, the least objectionable alternative." He adds: "The President of the U.S. is just another pol...
...chase scene featuring Steve McQueen, careening cars and the incredibly steep hills of San Francisco. McQueen's portrayal of a lone-wolf cop battling both criminals and his superiors shouldn't be missed, and Robert Vaughn, of Man From U.N.C.L.E. fame, makes an unusual appearance as the Ambitious Young Pol...
...candidates, Democrat Cliff Finch and Republican Gil Carmichael, are relative newcomers who rose by challenging the power of Senator James O. Eastland, the state's most potent pol. Lawyer Finch, a former state legislator from Batesville, a sleepy farm town, won the Democratic nomination by upsetting Eastland's candidate, Lieutenant Governor William Winter, with a record 58% of the vote in the August primary runoff; it was the first time that Eastland had backed a loser...
...slim margin of Massachusetts voters felt sure that, even though Frank Sargent was a nice guy, a sharp pol, and a liberal's liberal and even though Dukakis has all the charisma of a garden slug, was a non-politician, and was relatively unknown-they were getting something different and better...
...President has been so long removed from the foreign policy arena ? first Nix on because of Watergate, then Ford because of inexperience ? Kissinger has been forced to act, in the eyes of the world, as a sort of deputy President for international affairs. As a result, pol icy failures implicate him personally and intensify the loss of the aura of infallibility that had once made him appear to be the magician of world diplomacy. Says a high British foreign service officer: "Henry has become the prisoner of his own legend...