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Those 307 battle streamers that commemorated military engagements from Ticonderoga to Viet Nam have been moved from behind the presidential chair to the Cabinet Room. Ford's own war ribbons and medals (he has ten battle stars) are in a modest case on the shelf. There is a whiff of the West about the place, just as there is about Ford. In the hall is a painting of Old Faithful done by Albert Bierstadt about the time that Yellowstone became a national park; Ford once worked there. And there is a magnificent view of a setting sun on snowcapped...
...special EPA task force has found that more than 200 million Ibs. of vc and 50 million Ibs. of PVC are being discharged into the environment during the conversion process. In other words, people who live downwind of factories that make PVC might also unknowingly be getting a whiff of the gas. Two cases of angiosarcoma have in fact been reported in people whose houses were near a PVC plant in Bridgeport, Conn...
...pinched eyes of Nixon loyalists around this city, it probably seemed hopeless: there was no apparent order, and very little secrecy. But it all represented, one would hope, the first whiff of the Federal Government again beginning to function as it should. Right or wrong, Ford was making firm decisions. The CIA flap, however embarrassing, indicated that the U.S. was coming to grips with the realities of the world and the national mood. Henry Kissinger was being reduced from God to just a very good Cabinet officer. The fact that Rockefeller's $182 million was being laid...
Some critics detect a whiff of the unreal about the conclusions. Judge Nanette Dembitz of New York State's Family Court, for example, calls the proposal that can deny visiting rights "blind and untenable." But the book is making headway. In Washington, D.C., Judge Tim Murphy cited it in denying a custody claim by a natural parent. He also heeded the warning on the child's time-sense: once he made up his mind, instead of keeping the parties waiting for a written decision, he ushered them into chambers for an immediate ruling...
...there any way out of the dilemma? Intimations of immortality still infuse your soul, and the whiff of greatness is almost as strong as the smell of print in Samuelson. But, on the other hand, you're not willing to sacrifice the pleasures necessary if you want to climb the ladder of academic success. There are the movies that you've heard so much about but never seen, the trips to New Hampshire and Vermont, the bars and restaurants of Cambridge and Boston, walks along the river and talks with friends. Are these simple experiences, these fleeting moments of sensual...