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Upstairs at the Union (sounds like name for a preppie bar) there's a room full of ping-pong tables, ppool tables and pinball machines ready to eat up quarters and time. Many otherwise rational and intelligent men and women of Harvard have succumbed to the addiction of the shiny...

Author: By Hannah J. Zackson, | Title: How'd You Get Stuck With A Tuba Player? | 9/1/1974 | See Source »

Like most rational suggestions, Broder's may seem hopelessly Utopian. Who will take the first step toward disarmament? What reporter will be the first to stop pressing the Ford children for snappy quotes? All Broder asks is that Ford and his family not be constantly badgered into making copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Modest Proposal | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

On Wednesday, Ford again went through the motions of performing his vice-presidential duties, including a session with Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf and Admiral James Holloway. They presented him with a picture of the U.S.S. Monterey, on which he served during World War II. Interspersed with the routine were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TRANSITION: ENTER FORD | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

Unaware of this development, Republican leaders in the Senate still were worried. Would Nixon really heed their advice and succumb to the mounting pressures? Maybe he is not entirely rational about this situation, one such leader observed. And if pressed too hard, there was no way of knowing what the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LAST WEEK: THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

The U.S. and other wealthy nations worry that if progress is not made at Caracas, no new law will come out of a follow-up meeting scheduled for Vienna next year. Without some sort of law, most nations will form bilateral agreements on ocean use, creating a jumble of jurisdictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OCEANS: Wild West Scramble for Control | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

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