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Another part of our 1976 planning took place in Washington last month, when staffers from New York and correspondents from round the country met for two days to compare notes. The preparations included talking politics with some old pros: Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Edward Kennedy and the chairmen of the Republican and Democratic national committees, Howard Callaway and Robert Strauss. Even before then, most of the leading candidates had met with TIME'S editors in New York...
...this time, the world-bending denials were largely ignored, and the pros and cons of intervention were being openly discussed, by large portions of the American press and public, as technical problems of a legitimate and rational option of US foreign policy...
Given these cheerful signs, the January stock rally seems predictable in hindsight. But in fact, as Stein concedes, "it caught all technicians, including me, completely by surprise." At the beginning of January the expectation of the pros on Wall Street was that the traditional January buying flurry, essentially a technical correction following the tax-loss sell-offs at year's end, would be only a blip on an otherwise flat or slightly downward curve. Instead, an inexplicable renewal of optimism caused a wave of heavy buying, and the running of the bulls into the market began. As prices started...
Professional football? "They don't let 5-ft. 10-in. bowlegged cornerbacks in the pros," he laughs. "Maybe if I was faster, I'd consider...
Next, she aims to start a women's pro softball league, to launch professional mixed doubles tennis, to sponsor an "open Olympics" that admits pros and to set up a school for tennis umpires. "I'm not like most tennis players who are happy just hitting the ball and having a good time," says King. "I'm always thinking how I can make something a little bit better...