Word: straightenings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EFFORT to straighten out some points about President Gerald Ford, a panel discussion was organized to include a number of journalists from the nation's leading newspapers and magazines. Excerpts follow...
...Eugene Coffin, pastor of the East Whittier Friends Church, where Nixon is on the membership roll, has refused to say anything critical of the President, but he is said to be a distraught man. Father John McLaughlin, the Jesuit who is a White House adviser, is still trying to straighten things out with some members of his faith for his defense of the language and thoughts found on the tapes...
...staff, Johnson adds: "When I was a parole agent, I would see my guys maybe once a month. Here we have daily contact." As for the victims, Garage Owner Carl Brown notes, "It's no further risk to me. He's making the payments. Maybe this will straighten...
...arguments in prison with the officials for that very reason. When they found out my position, found out what I was willing to do, I wasn't pushed around by nobody." But he denies that this was special treatment. "I'm willing to take whatever comes to straighten [a situation] out; most people...
...notes that his Earth Shoes did what four years at the Air Force Academy in Colorado could not do: teach him to stand up straight. The curious, heels-down construction forces the wearer to lean backward more, and thus to tuck in the belly and bottom and straighten the spine. Some fanatic converts claim that Earth Shoes cure bunions and even stimulate blood circulation. Podiatrists have yet to weigh in with a verdict, but Earth Shoes seem far less dangerous than platforms, which have caused countless sprains and fractures. Most wearers admit, however, that the first few weeks...