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...Demands that Ford restrict his public movements. Almost no one was insisting that Ford stay rooted to his desk or expose himself only to television cameras. But members of Congress, experts on violence and editorial writers almost universally urged him to cool his ardor for personal contact with the masses, at least until the frenzy, like the abated flurry of skyjackings, passes. "Mr. Ford is in effect baring his chest, sticking out his chin and daring every kook in the country to take another shot at him," Columnist Joseph Kraft protested. Even Betty Ford has told friends she hopes...
...latest assassination attempts have brought renewed outcries to restrict and reduce the 40 million handguns that will take more than 10,000 lives in the U.S. this year. Said Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley: "We can no longer live with the nightmare staring at us out of the barrels of handguns." Calling for the "complete elimination of handguns," Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley scoffed, "You don't see someone shooting rabbits with a handgun. The only thing you hunt is human beings." With a greater sense of grievance than most people, Senator Edward Kennedy declared, "If America cares...
Dunster, Leverett, and Kirkland Houses report no overcrowding and do not intend to restrict interhouse in their dining halls...
...wanted to conduct an aggressive investigation that might well have led them to the White House officials who ran the Watergate coverup. But Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray was reluctant to push the probe, especially after the CIA, at the instigation of White House aides, urged him to restrict the inquiry, ostensibly to protect U.S. intelligence activities in Mexico. At Bates' suggestion, Gray asked the CIA to put the requests in writing, and the CIA officials backed off. Instead of rewarding Bates and his colleagues for being right, Gray banished one agent to St. Louis and retired another...
...admission to the club July 10 when he showed his Harvard Club of Boston credentials. Shortly afterwards, in what Perkins said was a direct violation of the reciprocal membership agreement between the two clubs, a club official told him he would have to leave because the NOAC by-laws restrict its membership to "Caucasians...