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...malaise. In addition, TIME's domestic correspondents were asked to add a personal dimension to the story by finding out how individual Americans are coping-or not coping-with inflation. The resulting vignettes, which accompany Church's piece, amply illustrate the truth of President Ford's remark that ordinary citizens are at least as aware of the wobbliness of the economy as the experts...
...blurted out his feelings about his father, who had never allowed him to crew for him during local Thistle-class races back home: "I could crew for you," John says angrily. "I could be a pair of hands for you, but you could never crew for me." The remark, Lipscomb acknowledges bitterly, was just. So was John's anger on another occasion when his father playfully tried to throw him into a tropical harbor. Furious because his father could take liberties that he could not, John offered to fight...
...same during the last few months." As Vice President, Ford would stroll into the back of the plane on his frequent travels, double-olived martini in hand, and spend hours jawing with the reporters who regularly covered him. The camaraderie was strained only once, when a newcomer printed a remark about Watergate that Ford considered off the record, forcing other reporters to follow suit. "After that, his relationship with us became very professional," recalls CBS's Phil Jones. "But he has a thick skin. He's proud that he has lots of adversaries in Congress but no enemies...
...lucrative defense contracts or military installations for Grand Rapids. He concentrated instead on personal service. European relatives of Grand Rapids citizens had little trouble migrating to America. Jerry Ford smoothed the way for them. In a biography of Ford that has just been published, Author Bud Vestal quotes a remark that has made the rounds in Michigan: "Every Dutch immigrant since Ford went to Congress just happens to have been an underground Resistance hero during World War II. And every Latvian who wants to come to Grand Rapids was the leading physician in Riga before the Russians took over...
...life's energy, makes a last ditch effort to make contact with his wife. In a most pitiful manner he crawls around to the front of the dune, only to be greeted by Winnie's cheerful, "My, what a pleasant surprise." The impropriety of his wife's politely jovial remark seems to do Willie in, while Winnie is left operating out of her optimism, happily awaiting the day she is melted away...