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Relaxed Style. Mrs. Ford's friends from the years in Congress visit often. One evening she served the same stuffed peppers she used to have in their Alexandria, Va., kitchen and was roundly kidded by her guests. A budget watcher, even with her husband's $200,000 salary, Mrs. Ford recently instructed Chef Henry Haller on how to make pot roast. "With turnips?" asked the amazed chef. She insisted: "That's just the way we have it at home." The relaxed style does not stop at the White House gates. Mrs. Ford, with her personal assistant Nancy...
...last month as a full-time columnist-reporter has now begun," began the countdown by Joseph Alsop in his syndicated newspaper column. The acerbic Washington watcher has been alluding to his upcoming retirement so often in recent columns, however, that some readers began to wonder whether he might be setting the stage for a series of farewell performances, like...
Science Center Teletype Watcher Kuumba Singers, Vice President, Secretary, Co-Director, Chairman of Program Committee, Member of Program Committee Currier House Committee...
...think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise," Biologist Lewis Thomas writes in The Lives of a Cell. Thomas' sense of contented dazzlement and his delight in scientific discovery are familiar to readers of his column, "Notes of a Biology Watcher," which appears regularly in the austere New England Journal of Medicine. His book, a collection of some of the best of those pieces, shows those who do not read the Journal how much they have missed...
...operates with a pack mentality. At the same time, the intense competitiveness of the newsmen?once they are fully aroused on a major story?occasionally makes them reach too far. New Republic's John Osborne, perhaps Washington's most judicious Nixon watcher, acknowledges that the press performed a "necessary and proper" function in getting at the basic facts of Watergate. "But," he adds, "I have to say at the same time that they're like dogs who have scented blood and are running the fox right down to the death...