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...which he traveled for his dad, and there are horse trails, which he travels for himself. Now Steven Ford, 23, son of the former President, has discovered more happy trails: he plays a deputy in an upcoming comedy western called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Has the seasoned rodeo rider had any acting training? Sure, says Ford: "The 2½ years I spent being a President...
...listens well and, as one aide puts it, "prides himself on being able to get along with other people." Rather like ex-President Gerald Ford, he has an unnerving gift for bumping into inanimate objects and asking inept questions. For example, he inquired of a moped rider: "Is that motorized...
...will work is in doubt. Only shrewd parliamentary maneuvering by Senate Democratic leaders last week prevented passage of a Republican-sponsored amendment as part of the bill increasing the national debt limit to $830 billion from $798 billion. In place of the G.O.P. measure, the Democrats substituted a diluted rider that requires congressional budget committees to draw up a balanced budget for fiscal 1981 and 1982. But the amendment does not bind Congress to adopt the committees' recommendations. Complained Kansas Republican Senator Robert Dole: "This is a hoax...
...Kenya; his portrait of a man and an epoch is written without prejudice or awe. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt takes its subject up to the presidency; a second volume will follow. Morris has set himself a tough act, for Volume I does more than evoke the irrepressible Rough Rider. The author has also summoned a vanished era when the U.S. was a boisterous, Godfearing, patriotic country whose leaders were a full-length reflection of their constituency...
...West provided a new outlet for Roosevelt's prodigious energies, as well as solace for the deaths of his mother and first wife on the same day. "Black care," wrote Roosevelt, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." He rode hard, surpassing the doughty ranch hands whose ridicule turned to reverence. No body snickered when Teddy read Matthew Arnold on the trail of an outlaw gang...