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...that the questions remain: "We expected to get the support of the democratic world. But we have found there's a worldwide effort to create the image of a country where everyone is tortured and put in jail. Chile is an open country--anyone can go there." With the whirlwind of claim and counter-claim, assertion and denial that envelops the military junta ruling Chile, perhaps Heitmann's exhortation to his audience to "go to Chile to see it for yourself" was the most unquestionable statement he could have made...
...strenuous 16-hour days graphically displayed Ford's developing style as President. He plunges into action, dealing personally with the maximum number of people and problems, both big and little. After two months in office, he is running meetings with more authority and acting more confident. But his whirlwind pace has also led to criticism that he spends too much time on the unimportant details of the presidency and not enough on the tough and complex decisions that he now must make. On three days, his schedule did not even leave him enough time to visit his wife Betty...
Moving at his customary whirlwind pace, Ford also tackled two other troublesome issues. In preparation for the "economic summit" at month's end, he brought 28 noted economists together for the first of eleven minisummits (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). Later, at the Continental Congress ceremony in Philadelphia, the President predicted that the nation would defeat "the tyranny of double-digit inflation" before the Bicentennial climax in July 1976. As if to set the stage for his pardon of Richard Nixon, Ford also announced that on the ticklish issue of amnesty for Viet Nam War deserters and draft evaders, he plans...
Frustrated with his progress as an actor, Nicholson would periodically try other aspects of the business. He wrote a few scripts and co-produced two low-budget westerns, The Shooting, which he starred in, and Ride the Whirlwind, which he starred in and wrote as well. He also turned out to be a demon for efficiency and staying within budgets. When the movies were finished, he personally carried them to the Cannes Film Festival, searching for a distributor and trying to scratch up some contacts...
...publishing course, now in its 27th year, takes its students on a six-week whirlwind tour of the publishing--and that does not mean just the journalism or writing--world, often spending less than a day on an entire field, for a steep $1000. The students all seem to get jobs with publishing houses, university presses and magazines almost immediately upon their graduation, partly because the course has a prestigious reputation and a lot of alumni in a position to hire people...