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...evening at the White House, he wished guests "a merry Christmas and a merry-uh-a happy New Year." Then, as he was walking toward his helicopter, his legs got tangled up in his dogs' leashes. A day later, he was waiting on the ski-lift line at Vail, Colo., when one of the chairs swung around and almost knocked him over. Two days later, he took a spill on the slopes. Many skiers do the same, of course, but Ford's spill was duly recorded by cameras and splashed across TV screens and front pages...
...worth of silver earmarked for her navy to rebuild the paradise. Ford pondered the steep descent, and his mind wandered back home to the Rockies. "This would be a good ski slope-there's a nice turn down there," he mused. He would have been better off in Vail. What he accomplished in Peking could have been done by Mailgram...
...places like Des Moines, Madison and Manchester. Then he will be off to Anchorage, Peking (China, that is), Manila, Jakarta and Honolulu. That will take the President up to mid-December; and after a short desk stop in the Oval Office, he will emplane for the ski slopes of Vail, probably with a rally or two on the way. And after the holidays, presidential primary campaigns begin in earnest, and so it will be Pocatello, Binghamton and you name...
Administration economists continue to insist that the inflation rate will subside soon-perhaps to 6% or 7%, which, to be sure, would still be distressingly high. Last week in Vail, Colo., President Ford's chief economic adviser, Alan Greenspan, said of the CPI for August: "We do expect it to be below the double digit rate." The Department of Agriculture called a special press briefing at which officials reassuringly predicted that the retail cost of food will rise no more for the rest of the year than it did in July alone. Their reasoning: most meat and poultry prices...
Vacationing on the green slopes of Vail, Colo., President Ford ended last week what suspense remained in the seven-month-long battle between the White House and Congress over oil price controls. He will veto, said the President, the six-month extension of the controls that Congress has passed and will officially send to him by month's end. If his veto is upheld, as previous ones have been, controls will end on Aug. 31, and the 60% of U.S.-produced oil that has been held to $5.25 per bbl. will be free to rise. The Administration hopes...