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Every new President likes to turn to trusted confidants for advice. So the unfamiliar faces of two old friends of Gerald Ford's have begun to appear in the circle of men with whom the President discusses economics. Like Ford, both are conservative Midwestern Republicans-and neither is an economist...
...there in my civvies, staring at all those black and red costumes, I kept wondering if everything was hanging right," said Beverly Sills, confessing to stage fright. On an unfamiliar stage last week, the Brooklyn-born soprano became an honorary doctor of music in Harvard Yard, along with Mstislav Rostropovich, the Russian cellist. "It was much more nerve-racking than any performance," said Beverly. "Maybe I should have sung instead." Doctor Beverly joshed Husband and Harvard Alumnus Peter Greenough saying, "I'm a Harvard man just like the other Greenoughs." Then she referred to her son Bucky...
Sailing coach Mike Horn said the light air conditions made the adjustment to unfamiliar boats and unfamiliar waters more difficult, because sailing in fluky winds places a premium on knowing where to find wind and less emphasis on the crews' boathandling abilities...
Neff and Middendorf will each be sailing eight races in Harvard's Interclub dinghies and eight races in the relatively unfamiliar Larks donated...
Organization Man. Unfamiliar with his new political terrain, Haig has nonetheless provided Nixon with sound advice. It was he, primarily, who talked the President into handing over at least some of the tapes demanded by Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. But he has also made his slips. He seemed to be in contact with the occult when he announced that a "sinister force" had been responsible for the elimination of 18% minutes of conversation from one of the tapes. He seriously underestimated the outraged public reaction when the President fired Archibald Cox from his job as special prosecutor last October...