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UNEMPLOYMENT. Quite properly, Ford "violently disagreed" with Kraft's assertion that Ford's current economic record is "rotten." Carter was excessive when, in response to Ford's claim of vast economic gains under his Administration, he declared-in the evening's most biting remark: "President Ford ought to be ashamed of making that statement." Yet Carter was correct in pointing out that unemployment reached its highest level since the Depression after Ford took office (8.9% in May 1975). Mistakenly thinking that Carter had specifically referred to low unemployment in the 1950s, Ford said the figures were...
...drift to Ford was abruptly stalled by his Polish remark. Said Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, an Illinois Democrat: "There was a revulsion on the part of people, many of whom still send clothes over there and go there two weeks every summer." Added Terry Gabinski. a Democratic alderman in Chicago: "Everywhere I go, I hear people talking about Carter being proabortion. Now I hear people saying they just can't believe the President said what he did." Invited to speak at a long-scheduled Polish American Congress dinner in Chicago last week. Bishop Alfred L. Abramowicz agonized over whether...
Probably the greatest gaffe of the evening-one that might have given Mondale an ultimate edge-was Dole's ill-considered remark that World War I, World War II, the Korean War and Viet Nam were all "Democrat wars" that killed 1.6 million Americans. Retorted Mondale: "I think Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man tonight. Does he really mean to suggest that there was a partisan difference over our involvement... to fight Nazi Germany...
Other humorists are less nostalgic -and more bountiful. They have found small seams of giddy gold in Carter's racy Playboy interview, Earl Butz's scurrilous remark, Ford's East European gaffe. If such breakthroughs continue, the contest might yet get something risible visible. "Voter apathy may be peaking too early," deadpans Columnist Bill Vaughan of the Kansas City Star. Adds Boston Globe Cartoonist Paul Szep: "I had to scrounge around for topics, but then in the last few weeks the goofs have been so numerous that my cartoons now come naturally." Among them: a Soviet soldier...
...underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof." On reading this pompous remark by Alexander Calder, the most internationally celebrated of all living American sculptors, one's hopes rise. Make way for the cosmic perspective! In fact, as the Whitney Museum's new retrospective of the work of this venerable figure testifies, his achievement is more modest and realistic. In the 200-odd works that make up "Calder's Universe," as the show is called, there is little of the real universe, but a pervasive flavor...