Word: predecessors
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Publicly, President Ford tried to downplay Nixon's odyssey, saying that it had "no political ramifications at all." Privately, Ford and his aides were furious that his disgraced predecessor would accept the longstanding invitation just as Ford was fighting to fend off the challenge of Ronald Reagan in the New Hampshire primary. Because Nixon seemed to be emerging from his San Clemente exile, Ford was being peppered with questions in New Hampshire about why he had pardoned the ex-President. Said one senior White House staffer: "It's goddam humiliating. Nixon can be forgiven for trying to make...
Last Oct. 12,25 high school students waited in the Union, N.J., office of the Transcendental Meditation movement. One by one they entered a room and reverently knelt before a candlelit altar holding a picture of the late Guru Dev, Hindu holy man and predecessor of TM Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Each student brought fruit and flowers to be placed on the altar by Teacher Janet Aaron, who then recited a Sanskrit puja (hymn of worship)* and whispered each student's mantra, the secret word that must be repeated to aid meditation...
Racial Policy. Hereford's troubles began after he became president in September 1974. Unlike his predecessor, Edgar F. Shannon Jr., Hereford refused demands that he renounce his Farmington membership. An internationally known physicist and longtime Virginia professor, Hereford is by no means a racist. By staying in the club and lobbying for admission of blacks, he insisted, he could do more good than by resigning. His argument: "A change in Farmington would help to change the setting in which the university exists. This isn't an ideal community for blacks, but I'm trying to make...
...sentiment for execution in certain specified crimes-a point that could influence the court. Moreover, retired Justice William O. Douglas, who broadly opposed the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment, has been replaced by John Paul Stevens, whose legal philosophy is more moderate than that of his liberal predecessor. Close observers of the court predict that it will vote this summer to restore executions by a margin of at least...
This attitude does not endear him to administrators of California's schools or colleges. Indeed, a few are wondering if Brown, who they thought was a liberal Democrat, is more anti-education than was his conservative Republican predecessor, Ronald Reagan...