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...President may avoid reporters' questions for a time, but events claw at him 24 hours a day. There is no escape. "The whole damned world ends up on the White House threshold," sighed a Ford aide last week. At about that moment Ford was down in the basement, sleeve rolled up, getting his swine-flu shot to demonstrate it was safe. Three elderly people had died in Pennsylvania after receiving the shot, and doubts about the program were immediately directed at the White House. HEW Secretary David Mathews flagged the President's Washington staff, which informed the campaigning...
...romance," an artistic sleight of hand by which he allows himself the generous introduction of coincidences. The resonances of the original romance, the Garden of Eden parable, are plentiful. Jerry is a sort of suburban Adam, hopelessly in love, tempted to make his passion public and thereby cross the threshold into the "new morality." Sally, for her part, reveals herself to be the bad Eve as the action progresses; essentially sinful, she demonstrates her greediness and her poison. Beneath her pious confessions of concern for the feelings and future of Ruth and her children, she is a sharp-nailed bitch...
Basically, the statisticians define the poor by establishing a series of poverty-threshold incomes that are adjusted every year according to the inflation rate. For 1975, the poverty cutoffs ranged from $2,717 for a single person to $5,500 for a nonfarm family of four. But how are the numbers determined...
...evident that in many areas of American life we have reached the threshold of tolerance for Government interference. It is not a matter of ideology. It is plain human protest against inconvenience, burden and limitation...
...structure fell early victim to lagging work schedules. Though the stadium has an open top, it is designed so that no wind blows on the field-ideal for the record books but not the runners and spectators. July heat could cause "the climate on the field to resemble the threshold of hell," says Larry Eldridge, athletics coordinator for the organizing committee...