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...Token. Raspberry's questioning turn of mind came from his parents, both schoolteachers in the northeastern Mississippi hamlet of Okolona. After graduating from the local black high school, he entered Indiana Central College in Indianapolis and helped support himself by reporting for a local black weekly. A stint in the Army brought him to Washington, where he got a job as a teletypist for the Post. Some months later a sympathetic editor recognized Raspberry's potential as a reporter. He spent four years on civil rights stories. In 1966 he got a chance as a columnist...
...Ford went out of his way to invite a wide spectrum of Americans to the White House. He listened to the views of 16 members of the congressional Black Caucus and assured them that social-welfare programs would not be the only targets of his spending cuts. Later, as token of his resolve, he signed two important pieces of domestic legislation into law. One authorizes $11.9 billion to house low-income people; the other provides $25.4 billion in aid to public elementary and secondary schools. Said Ford: "I suspect this is the first federal aid to education bill ever signed...
...also enjoys uniquely close relations with both business and labor and can attract the kind of talent needed to cope with Ford's biggest problem: inflation. Despite past battles with party conservatives, he is not likely to offend many people today. He has made at least a token peace with the right. Moreover, he is no longer the political threat he used to be. Age is fast removing him from contention; Ford plans to run for the presidency in 1976, and Rockefeller will be 72 in 1980. In the meantime, Ford has ample leisure to groom a successor...
...unchallenged. For the past year the beleaguered President has been extravagantly extolled and defended by Korff, sprightly founder and head of the National Citizens' Committee for Fairness to the Presidency, Inc. Last week Nixon found time to meet with Korff in San Clemente, Calif., where he accepted a token of the rabbi's devotion: a copy of a hagiographic paperback called The Personal Nixon: Staying on the Summit, which Korff s organization is rushing into the bookstores...
...found itself with two prized scoops after the May 17 shootout between L.A. police and six members of the Symbionese Liberation Army. The first was a three-page statement from the "Weather Underground." The group claimed credit for bombing an office of the state attorney general as a token of support for the S.L.A. Then came a tape-recorded message from Patricia Hearst and two other S.L.A. survivors (TIME, June...