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Nixon immediately walked with his family through the applause in the East Room, out to the south lawn and into Army One, the olive-drab helicopter that the Army provides the President, which was waiting to ferry them to Andrews Air Force Base. There Air Force One, the silver-and-blue 707 that had taken him to his triumphant tours of China and the Soviet Union, was in turn waiting for the 4-hr. 44-min. flight to California. Betty and Gerald Ford walked with the Nixons down the red carpet that had been laid from the Executive Mansion...
...decade was never quite so drab or stagnant as its detractors would have it. In the grayness of the day came the epochal desegregation decision; through the fever of the Kefauver hearings the acute viewer could perceive a glimpse of the Mafia mind. Amid the treacle of Your Hit Parade, a few vinegary notes could be heard from the vulgarian disc jockeys, Alan Freed and Dick Clark. They were the early life signs of rock, a message that the Broadway melody was finished. In the art galleries, Jackson Pollock outraged onlookers with his whorls and spillages. On stage Elvis gyrated...
...Beverly Hills mansion. On hand to speed his rehabilitation, and help him forget the $122.5 million in lawsuits that he faces, were a covey of admiring roommates. "I have 22 bedrooms, and 19 of them are occupied," said Cornfeld proudly. "Women give life sparkle and keep things from getting drab." Then, turning philosophical, he added, "I don't have huge expectations from any kind of friendship. In the final analysis, we're all pretty much alone...
Snedden, 47, a somewhat drab and uninspiring speaker, could scarcely hope to match Whitlam's charisma. In the campaign, he tried to capitalize on something more important to voters: inflation, which under Labor has jumped from an annual rate...
...have my applause for the TIME Essay, "The Delicate Subject of Inequality" [April 15]. I now know where America's much lamented heroes have gone. They have been shamed into mediocrity and a drab conformity by those embarrassed by excellence: the liberals who roll that stone of Sisyphus known as equality. In their search for a standard of equality, these new egalitarians never dare to look up. They seek the lowest common denominator and establish it as the norm so that no one, however squalid or vulgar, need be left out of the American Dream...