Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even at moments of seeming relaxation, Kissinger manages to maintain an aura of mystery and tension. Last week the Secretary, dressed in blue shorts and a white terry-cloth beach jacket, was sunning himself beside the pool of the New Cataract Hotel in Aswan when an aide rushed up with a secret message. Kissinger walked away from attentive newsmen to read the missive. "Can we do that?" he asked. "Yes," replied the aide. Kissinger returned to talk with the reporters, but did not tell them until they boarded the plane that they were to make an unscheduled flight to Ankara...
...addition, the lack of success of affirmative action at the graduate schools is particularly reproachable since it is these schools that feed candidates into the applicant pool for junior faculty positions. The claim that women and minorities do not receive faculty appointments because there is such a paucity of qualified applicants is hypocritical when placed against the meager attempts to recruit women and minorities into the graduate programs and lower level positions...
When these department chairmen sign their letters of acceptance this week, they should think about how they could have improved the situation. If they had attempted to go out and conduct a search for qualified black candidates they would have had a larger pool to chose from, and consequently more blacks may have been admitted...
...alone with the President to the hospital to have lunch with Betty Ford after her cancer operation. Ward was there when Mrs. Ford said goodbye to her son Steve following her mastectomy. He was present at Camp David when Ford decided to coax Liberty, his golden retriever, into the pool. Shooting rapidly, and somehow managing to keep dry, Ward recorded a slapstick sequence as Betty Ford pushed her husband into the water, then Press Secretary Ronald Nessen and Nancy Howe, Mrs. Ford's personal secretary, dunked each other. And in a Truffautesque bit of business, Ward even caught Ford...
...earnest greeting in her curiously flat voice, Pop and the other males see they can afford to relax. Underneath all that finery and a ceramic of makeup there is a rather awkward, imperfectly beautiful girl. She appears no more daunting than the nice new kid in the secretarial pool or your home room when she finally talks to you -someone, perhaps, who could use a little protecting...