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While Jimmy Carter has settled most of his indignation on getting rich unfairly-on tax loopholes and the lobbyists who preserve and enlarge them -his fervid campaign cries often have biblical overtones suggesting that the wealthy are vaguely evil. Gerald Ford, on the other hand, eagerly indulges in the resort rituals of the rich and some-tunes seems more enamored with White House luxuries like Camp David and Air Force One than his job. Ford's love of the golf circuit back in his congressional days could cost him crucial support, since it has been revealed corporations footed some...
...Khama, 55, has been expanding ties with black African countries and refuses to have diplomatic relations with either Pretoria or Salisbury. Forced by geography to be the most conservative of the front-line-five presidents, Khama denies the presence of Rhodesian guerrillas in his country and is reluctant to resort to violent confrontation...
Carter's resort to undeaconlike idiom was perhaps best explained in a subsequent Sunday New York Times Magazine article by Norman Mailer-in which Carter used a still raunchier expression. Quoting Carter as saying, "I don't care if people say " Mailer wrote, "And he actually said the famous four-letter word that the Times has not printed in the 125 years of its publishing life." (For what else the Times and other papers did not publish, see PRESS.) Analyzed Mailer: "It was said from duty, from the quiet decent demands of duty...
...conversational ingenuity sort of petered out after a study of the Olympic athletes displayed in the the sports section of a newpaper and a resort to numbers, as they jotted down the scores of various games for me. The train pulled into their station during a game of canasta, and they trooped off. Janev rushed back momentarily, to shake my hand and present me with a left-over tin of meat; and the conductor showed up to throw me out of first class, now that my escort was gone...
...planes in last week's collision were a British Airways Trident-Flight 476-bound from London to Istanbul with 63 aboard, and a Yugoslav DC-9. The Yugoslav plane had been chartered to return West German vacationers to Cologne after a 14-day vacation at the Adriatic resort of Split...