Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retrospect, Ford admits that if he had been a "little smarter," he would have realized that Nixon had dropped him teasing hints. At a meeting of congressional leaders to discuss procedures to be followed in making his nomination, Nixon joshed: "I'd like to be in the shape with the American public that Jerry Ford is." At another, this time private, meeting with the President on V.P. Day, Nixon called in the White House photographer and ordered: "Take this picture. It may be historic." Still, Ford claims he had no inkling that he was the choice until the phone...
...Still in Shape. Ford also was accused by former Washington Lobbyist Robert N. Winter-Berger, in his book The Washington Payoff, of being involved in some small stock deals having to do with his membership on the board of the Old Kent Bank and Trust Co. of Grand Rapids. Winter-Berger also claims that Ford did unspecified favors for an unnamed client hi return for $50,000 donated to Republican candidates- but not Ford-in 1970. The minority leader has denied both accusations, and almost no one takes them seriously...
Square-jawed and still in shape, Ford jogs, skis and daily swims laps in the heated pool behind his modest brick and clapboard house in Alexandria, Va. Betty Ford once danced with the Martha Graham troupe and worked as a Powers model in New York City before her marriage. She shuns politicking, concentrating instead on their three sons and one daughter, and once proudly described the family as "squares." Ford's closest friends tend to be other Republican leaders, among them Nixon's domestic adviser, Mel Laird...
...movies all have the shimmering, unhurried feeling of a long, waning afternoon. This one, about the early years of World War II in Bengal and the beginnings of the 1943 famine, shows the grace and calm authority of his best work, as well as his ability to shape great themes into h man drama without reducing them. Ray flirts with melodrama here, but Distant Thunder gathers a quiet force that makes most objections incidental. Better even than its treatment of the reality of poverty is the way Ray handles the subtle shifts it causes in his two main characters...
During the past three seasons the Harvard soccer team could have played against any team in the nation with a good chance of winning. Times have changed, however, and Harvard soccer coach Bruce Munro said yesterday, "We really are in pretty bad shape," referring to today's match against the University of Connecticut soccer team...