Word: ronald
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...choice is down to three?and they are among the most unusual politicians in the nation's history. The next President of the U.S. will be either Jimmy Carter, the one-term Georgia Governor who has had the most spectacular political rise since Wendell Willkie in 1940; or Ronald Reagan, the two-term California Governor who staged the most successful challenge against an incumbent since Theodore Roosevelt took on William Howard Taft in 1912; or Gerald Ford, the longtime Michigan Congressman whom fate, Watergate and the 25th Amendment propelled into the Oval Office. Their status as survivors tells much about...
...Electable"?that will be the buzz word dominating the bitter Republican struggle, probably right down to the convention floor in Kansas City, Aug. 16. The argument will be whether Gerald Ford or Ronald Reagan will have a better chance of beating the formidable Jimmy Carter in November. The very fact that doubts are being cast on the electability of a sitting President with the traditional advantages of incumbency is a measure of the trouble Ford is in. It is also a measure of how far Reagan has come from a shaky start, with no credentials in foreign affairs...
...growing list of names, many of which Carter knows far too little about-and, in some cases, too much. He is sure to keep the guessing game alive as a way to hold the spotlight until the convention. The Republicans know no such comfort: Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan are headed for a delegate battle that makes it difficult for either one to consider picking a running mate without the approval of the other...
...coffers, and the glassy-eyed behavior of the youngsters has so alarmed many parents that they have resorted to illegal kidnapings and "deprogrammings" to retrieve their offspring. The best known of the deprogrammers is Ted Patrick, 45, an ex-middleweight fighter and onetime community relations aide for Governor Ronald Reagan in California. Patrick claims to have rescued 1,000 youths from the Unification Church and other cults. Mrs. Jenetta French of Greensboro, N.C., who has "lost" two daughters to Moon, described how Ronda, a former airline stewardess, behaved when Patrick was trying to deprogram her. "She was very childlike...
...what the nation achieved in May. The unemployment rate dropped to 7.3% from 7.5% in April; the wholesale price index rose at a moderate annual rate of 3.7%, v. 10% the month before. President Ford hailed the news as "extremely significant" and predicted that it would help him best Ronald Reagan in this week's primaries. Even Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin greeted the figures as "unadulterated good news...