Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...left for a series of college lectures in Alabama and golf with Pro Arnold Palmer and Football Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. Thus, even at a time of family crisis, the Fords stuck to the pattern of their nearly 30 years in politics: despite concerns at home, he hits the road to build support for the G.O.P. Last month Ford spent nearly half his time traveling, speaking at seven G.O.P. fund-raising affairs, three business conventions and three college campuses. The Ford children have left home, though Susan, 20, lives near by in her own condominium...
...with them [the nonwhites], we might as well cancel the election and begin to oil our guns. You can't fight a war without gas and ammunition, and we don't have those things ... I have joined hands with them in mutual trust. I will walk the road to the end with them...
...Harvard baseball team goes into fullscale Eastern League war this weekend with a tough road trip that begins today at Columbia and doesn't stop until Saturday's doubleheader at Penn is over...
...trouble with that argument is that at the end of the road we will have a situation in which Smith and the internal nationalists are on one side, supported by the South Africans and ourselves, and on the other side are the rest of the African countries, and most of the ex-colonial world, supported by the Russians and Cubans. It would be a dreadful conflict." The key to avoiding such a conflict, Moose maintains, lies in an evenhanded approach to the transition. "Whether the transfer of power is resolved politically or militarily," he says, "will have an enormous impact...
...youngsters' characters are hardly sketched in at all. A possible romance be tween Garfield and the team's nurse-chaperone (Kathleen Lloyd) is also left hanging vaguely in air. The team's adventures on the road are neither funny nor harrowing. Even the racing scenes are suspenselessly developed to resemble all the other skateboarding sequences; no where is there any pace, style or excitement. One can only hope that this bad, visibly cheap film will not entirely preempt further explorations of a curious little world. There is still a good movie in it somewhere...