Word: stolidness
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...Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith. Vorster received Elson with Reporter Peter Hawthorne in his 18th-floor office in the Hendrik Verwoerd Building in Cape Town; Smith spoke with Elson and TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs the following day in his sparsely furnished office in downtown Salisbury. Vorster appeared to be stolid but relaxed; Smith's answers were plain-spoken and understated. But in essence, both men made clear their hard-line conviction that whatever political transition is to evolve in southern Africa, it must take place largely on their own terms. Excerpts from the interviews...
...senses enough viewer interest in a nutty anchorman to boost the ailing network into Nielsen heaven. The news department becomes part of Christenson's entertainment empire, and, as the "mad prophet" of the air waves, Beale gains 60% of the audience and puts the double-whammy on such stolid, sane types as Walter Cronkite and John Chancellor. "Howard Beale is processed instant God," Christenson gushes, "and right now it looks like he may just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore...
...other side, many voters preferred Ford's more stolid style to Carter's sometimes almost smart-alecky behavior. Said David Porter, 31, an unemployed Pittsburgh schoolteacher: "Foreign policy is not a smiling issue." Said Chicago Management Consultant Randy Adams, 32: "I think Ford answered more directly. I don't agree with everything he said, but he answered the questions...
...tirade against authority. Antoine can't believe that Bernard landed a 20-year sentence for having the instincts of an honest man when a sleazy crime of passion would have earned him a much lighter punishment. Descombes listens in silence, then softly repeats, "Twenty years. My God!" His stolid expression crumples feature by feature and he begins to weep. And this, more than Antoine's polemics, is what moves us: just a homely middle-aged man who looks even homelier when he cries...
Ford is more stolid and less articulate, but nobody can question his depth of experience. For all his widely publicized flaws and stumbles, .he has been a better President than he has been given credit for. His moderate-growth policies have helped lift the nation out of recession and curb inflation. With Henry Kissinger, he has handled foreign affairs capably, and he has restored a measure of trust and faith in the White House...