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Until Ford committed his slip, the ethnics had been moving into the Republican column. They are mostly Roman Catholics, who live in big cities, often hold blue-collar jobs-and are basically registered Democrats. In 1912, distrustful of George McGovern's far-out liberalism, a majority voted for Richard Nixon. More recently, they have been antagonized by Democratic positions on some key issues. Living in close-knit communities with a strong sense of family, ethnics generally take a hard line on crime, drugs, pornography and amnesty. They are increasingly uneasy with one other group in the Democratic coalition: blacks...
...Simons, research chief of Weeden & Co., notes, "We will not get back to 1000 until we get some signs that the economy is improving." There is little chance of that happening, at least in the next few weeks. Thus some brokers now believe that stock prices will continue to slip, dragging the Dow down to a low of 900 or so before Election Day. Indeed, some analysts believe that such a drop might be a healthy correction that would leave the market poised for a new and sustained upward march later on. For the moment, however, the state...
...good a companion and too pretty to go dying like that for a romanticism that she was always half afraid would slip away from...
Carter largely failed to exploit Ford's slip during the debate. But next day he called Ford's remarks "absolutely ridiculous," and his staff considered preparing a series of radio commercials to be beamed primarily at ethnic communities. Chortled Carter Political Director Landon Butler: "We couldn't have picked a better ethnic coordinator than Ford...
Ford's statement dumbfounded and dismayed "ethnic" groups. So far, at least, only a minority echoed the charitable view of Boleslaw Wierzbianski, of the Polish Daily News in Jersey City, N.J., that the remark was "a lapse of lingua-a slip of the tongue." Added Feliks Gadomski, general secretary of the Assembly of Captive European Nations: "I was shocked by what he said, but you have to judge him on the whole American Government policy...