Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's no point in going to Geneva merely to sign what has been taken by force. For us, guerrilla warfare is a necessity...
Though Ford had Rockefeller in mind from the start, he kept his opinion to himself. He wanted to draw party leaders into the decision, and he was anxious to keep his options open in case Rockefeller, for some reason, did not work out. The first faint sign that the President was thinking of Rockefeller was given even before Richard Nixon left the White House. Ford's old House associate Melvin Laird, now a Reader's Digest executive, announced that he supported Rocky for Vice President if Ford took over as President. Though Ford had not asked Laird...
...needed. He divorced his wife of 31 years in 1962 and a year later married a younger woman, Margaretta Filler Murphy, whose former husband was a virologist at the Rockefeller Institute. "Happy" Murphy was forced to give up custody of her four children after she married Rockefeller. (In a sign of changing U.S. mores, three of the foursome making up the new presidential and vice-presidential couples-Gerald Ford being the one exception-have been divorced...
...rate, Kissinger has failed in his Johnny-come-lately efforts to solve the Cyprus dilemma. He no longer is the magical fireman poised to come to the rescue at the first sign that an international crisis is brewing...
...uncommon for an election to be uncontested. Maybe this is changing: One candidate for the Freshman Council last year went so far as to buy an advertisement in The Crimson to boost his campaign. He was accordingly disqualified, but not even this breech of political ethics gave much sign of denting his constituents' indifference. Presumably they had their eyes on bigger game...