Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were ready with hundreds of Ford signs under their seats. Nancy arrived across the hall just before the 16c battle was joined. As she seemed to be gaining decibels in the audio clash, the band broke into TV Star Tony Orlando's hit song Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. Betty turned to Orlando, who was visiting the Ford family's VIP gallery, and the two danced breezily in the aisle for a few moments. The crowd went wild. Nancy purportedly was spared the sight of her rival's triumph. "I'm nearsighted...
Last spring Griffin was sent to Iowa to round up the delegate votes that won that state's crucial caucus for Ford. He also ran Ford's successful campaign in Michigan and devised the plan for the President to whistle-stop through the state...
When the current round of rioting broke out in Soweto this month, white officials started talking about a new deal for blacks. Early last week Justice Minister James Kruger declared: "Make no mistake. The government will not turn a deaf ear to black grievances. I want blacks to have far more say in areas relating to law and order, and I hope all policing of black townships can soon be done by blacks themselves." But government attitudes quickly hardened. After remaining silent for nearly a week, Prime Minister John Vorster warned: "If there are grievances, the door is open...
...airline executives are outraged. Says Thomas Taylor, TWA's Washington vice president: "The U.S. Government should tell the British to shove it." They reject London's argument that the Bermuda arrangement has encouraged the overcapacity that results in a year-round average passenger load of less than 60%. They also dispute the British assertion that a cut in total flights would improve all the airlines' earnings; indeed, under such an arrangement the hard-pressed, unsubsidized U.S. carriers would certainly lose. U.S. airlines point out that far from having more than a fair share of the business...
...fame as a purveyor of sporting goods to the rich and famous had become widespread. The store outfitted Theodore Roosevelt for safaris, Admiral Richard E. Byrd for his expedition to Antarctica. Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfers Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower and all-round author-out-doorsman Ernest Hemingway also shopped there. Its stock of firearms and tackle equipment was among the world's largest and finest, and its aloof sales staff was made up of technical experts in A. & F.'s wares. A. & F.'s Manhattan store on Madison Avenue was a showcase of such exotic items...