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...amazed at Jack Paar's vindictive attitude [TIME FORUM, Sept. 16] toward Dick Cavett, merely because your reviewer liked the book. Shame on him for his petty words. I nominate him for "Poorest Sport in Television...
...established its headquarters in his capital. At home, though, he seemed concerned mostly with the trappings of progress-inspecting new roads and interviewing youths proposed for scholarships abroad. He did little to initiate changes that might have raised Ethiopia from its position as one of Africa's poorest, least literate and most corrupt nations. His failure to act on economic and social problems triggered the military protests last February and led inexorably to his ouster...
Most critics complained that Ford's action had dealt a devastating blow to the idea that the poorest citizen is equal to a President-or former President -under the laws. "There is the obvious anomaly of punishing people who were working on Nixon's behalf or on Nixon's orders, yet not punishing Nixon," concurred Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. "It seems to be an act which can only suggest that we do have a double standard of justice in the U.S.-that the President is indeed above...
...think that they would have called him sort of a little man, common man. He didn't consider himself that way. Know what he was? He was a streetcar motorman first. And then a farmer. And then he had a lemon ranch. It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can assure you. He sold it before they found oil on it [laughter]. And then he was a grocer. But he was a great man, because he did his job and every job counts up to the hilt regardless of what happens...
...based on civil service, and pushed through plans for the first degree-granting medical school in a state whose ratio of one doctor for every 1,100 people is the nation's poorest. Kneip was raised in Elkton, S. Dak., built a dairy-equipment business and then entered politics, winning the first of three terms in the state senate in 1964. First elected Governor in 1970, the folksy, breezy politician is favored for a third term in November...