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Brief though it was, the President's Italian visit contributed to what was a major purpose of his journey: to give Western Europe's leaders a chance to size up Gerald Ford. Their guarded verdict: passing grades for the President. "His only real slip was the physical one," said a British official, referring to the much photographed fall that Ford took at Salzburg airport...
Debbie Reynolds was the madcap of the '50s, a slip of a colleen with a heart-shaped face. Her daughter Carrie Fisher, 18, is the madcap of the '70s, a dourly funny sophisticate. Debbie's big hit movie was the innocuous Tammy and the Bachelor, in which she played a professional teen-age virgin. Carrie has a hit flick too: Warren Beatty's Beverly Hills satire Shampoo. She also played a teen-ager-a nymphet who traps Beatty into...
...didn't realize he'd gone to prep school, and I guess I was trying to live up to his expectations. "I like this green one." I would say, pointing to a pot that was unmistakable blue. When he seemed hurt. I'd say it was just a slip of the tongue, and he never looked too suspicious--he was one of the least distrustful people I knew. The only known exception to this rule was his Inquiry listing a string of actions by the History faculty, that ranged from declining to waive department requirements to acting rude...
...know all this would happen. I Just didn't know," Kearns, in this very sweet way, had the wool over at least one reporter's eyes for a long time. At first she would only talk about Glikes-as-a-rejected-lover off the record, and when she finally slipped, or pretended to slip, and said it on the record, in her fragile way, she knew I would print it, because she had guarded it like a terrible truth at first...
Under the experiment, First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Lincoln put computer terminals into two stores of the state's Hinky Dinky grocery chain. A customer of the S and L can present a deposit or withdrawal slip and a coded identification card to a Hinky Dinky employee, who punches the transaction onto a typewriter-size console tied into First Federal's main computer. Once the central computer approves the transaction, funds that a customer withdraws are transferred from his savings account to Hinky Dinky's account, and the Hinky Dinky employee hands over the cash...