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...Gerry Ford, conducting the affairs of state as usual, while at the same time cavorting about and carrying on like any red-blooded rich American. The economy couldn't be that bad, look at all the happy people, look at all the cars filled with gasoline, look at the ten-dollar bills being slapped down by the thousands for a couple of rides up a mountain, look at the fur and the snazzy outfits. After all this time, here was an American president who could get out among the American people, find out what they were doing and what they...
...became a waitress because I needed money fast, and you don't get it in an office. My husband and I broke up and he left me with debts and three children. My baby was six months. The fast buck, your tips. The first ten-dollar bill that I got as a tip, a Viking guy gave to me. He was a very robust, terrific atheist. Made very good conversation for us, 'cause...
...pity at Harvard, I know, that we have a commitment to women's education without the miracles to back it up. While the image of Radcliffe Yard strewn with ten-dollar bills falling from the gray skies of Cambridge is an attractive one, that is simply not the way things work. The closest we can come to divine intervention would be a sudden magnificent inheritance. But either way, money is the manna we need...
...driving along Lake Shore Drive. You happen to be going over the speed limit. A policeman stops you, you give him your license with a ten-dollar bill wrapped around it, he gives you a lecture and you drive away. That's machine corruption...
...shaming the North Vietnamese. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, post offices began issuing the first of 135,000,000 special stamps reading POW/MIA (missing in action). More than half a million fund-raising letters will be sent to possible contributors, asking them to help the effort by buying a ten-dollar "POW Action Pack," containing stickers (Have a Heart, Hanoi), buttons, and suggestions for forming local groups to push for the freedom of the prisoners. As Christmas Seal season nears, TV and radio ads will urge Americans not to forget the flyers who cannot celebrate with their families. The effort will...