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...only among Democrats. "What happened to Jerry on the way down the avenue?" asks one disgruntled G.O.P. House leader. Once one of the congressional colleagues most open to consultation, Ford is now perceived as a loner who does not defer to Congress any more than did his isolated predecessor in the White House. "I don't know what's going on down there," says a top House Republican. "I don't know who's advising...
...Asian adventure, Ford was tempted to do just what his predecessor had done - use the summit euphoria to salve the domestic disruptions and the growing White House leadership malaise...
...closely, Pioneer 11 will plunge deeper into the planet's intense radiation belts than did Pioneer 10, which passed 81,000 miles from the cloudtops last December. As a result, Pioneer 11 will be subjected to radiation perhaps ten times as powerful as that encountered by its predecessor, which escaped with only minor damage to its instruments. If Pioneer 11's electronic gear survives, it should produce a bonanza of data: 22 closeup color pictures of Jupiter, including the first of its polar regions; new studies of the planet's temperature, radiation levels and magnetic field...
...symbolizes what it symbolizes," Andrew W. Cordier, McGill's predecessor, who took office shortly after the 1968 strike and presided over the decision to move the gym, said yesterday. "I'm delighted that it's finished and that...
...energy crisis in the winter of 1974-75--this time, an impending shortage of coal-produced electricity instead of Arab-imported oil--poses most of the same threats to a sluggish economy its predecessor did, but fewer inscrutable mysteries. It is not foreign in origin. It is not contingent upon (or confused by) questions of finding new fuel sources. Most experts agree that America sits upon coal seams extensive enough to meet its needs for 80 to 100 years. It has a definite point of origin--November 12, the Tuesday when 120,000 coal-mining members of the United Mine...