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Last week, due to an unforeseen upset, 3 for 4. On the year, 28 right, 9 wrong...
...whose wife Susan is a state representative in Illinois: "I always thought I would marry the barefoot pregnant wife-I am an Italian, after all. But that's not how it turned out." Catania quickly adds: "I have no real complaints." In some cases, political husbands have enjoyed unforeseen boons from their wives' careers. When Patsy Mink, 46, was elected to Congress from Hawaii in 1964, her husband John quit his job as a hydrologist with the Honolulu Board of Water Supply, won a fellowship to Johns Hopkins University and later joined a Washington-based scientific consulting firm...
...public interest." The architects, in a somewhat foreboding note, also criticized the Pei designers for attempting "to reduce the apparent bulk of their proposal by cladding it in mirrors. This is a device untried on any scale in an urban setting," they warned, "and it may produce unforeseen problems, of appearance, reflected heat and glare...
Deputy Chancellor Walter Scheel, who is Foreign Minister and leader of the Free Democrats, which form the ruling coalition with Brandt's Social Democrats (S.P.D.), immediately assumed power as interim Chancellor. He will hold that office until this week, when the Bundestag, barring some unforeseen development, will elect Finance Minister Helmut Schmidt (see following story) as Brandt's successor. Scheel is also scheduled to be elected as successor to the retiring Heinemann...
...steady for the rest of the model year in exchange for early exemption from formal wage-price controls. Chairman Henry Ford II contended that the company's costs have risen so sharply as to release it from the agreement under some language granting exemptions in the case of unforeseen economic developments. Indeed, he said, prices on 1975 models would have to go "hundreds of dollars" higher, in part to recover the costs of new antipollution equipment...