Word: ronald
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...thus interesting, but hardly surprising, that divorce is no longer a taboo and has virtually vanished as an issue in national politics. No one could care less whether Betty Ford was divorced from her first husband before she married Jerry (nor whether the President's former rival, Ronald Reagan, got a divorce and remarried). And without more than a momentary pause, Ford and his advisers put Robert Dole on the ticket even though he was divorced...
Already buoyed by his hard-fought triumph over Ronald Reagan, the President got some good news from the first polls taken after the Republican Convention in Kansas City. Gallup showed Ford trailing Jimmy Carter by only 39% to 49%; in July, after the Democratic revival meeting in Manhattan, Gallup had Ford behind by a dismal 29% to 62%. Opinion Research Corp. put Carter nine points up. TIME'S own poll gave Carter only a six-point edge...
...party. He believes this may demand a whole new approach, a coalition of different constituencies, perhaps even a new party name. He expects to be at the center of it. "I didn't compromise any of my principles," he said. "Look at that platform. It's pure Ronald Reagan...
...their old distrust of the Eastern-based networks. "They have discovered what protesting students and blacks discovered a decade ago," concluded Columnist Joseph Kraft. "They have come to know how to play media games." Indeed, in many ways the convention was a manipulated-for-TV event. President Ford and Ronald Reagan scheduled their arrivals in Kansas City to ensure live coverage on the ABC and CBS pre-convention specials. The Ford forces posted two men in trailers just outside the arena to furnish pro-Ford luminaries for interviews with network floor reporters...
...drug culture's quest for the perfect legal high has created a bewildering range of alternatives to marijuana-beyond the reach of the law but sometimes of dubious effectiveness or safety. Psychopharmacologist Ronald K. Siegel, 33, of U.C.L.A.'s School of Medicine reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that at least 192 herbs are commercially available and used for smoking, either already prepared as cigarettes or sold loose for "roll your own" and pipe addicts. Many are come-ons containing nothing stronger than backyard greenery, but Siegel has found 44% to contain psychoactive substances that...