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...years as a law student and football coach at Yale, where he almost married a model ("Nothing quite so frivolous has since intruded on his well-regulated life," we are assured), through his election to Congress in 1948 and his ascension to the House minority leadership. Only after this tidal wave of anecdote are we given any glimpse of Ford's political attitudes, and then it comes in the form of a separate box and provided with less than half the space devoted to his biography. Meanwhile, four pages of color photos depict Gerald Ford eating breakfast with his family...
...What's going on now has the impact of a tidal force." That was one senior presidential adviser's description of the multiple and multiplying assaults on the presidency of Richard Nixon last week. Each day brought bad news about hard fact and worse rumors about impending defections in Congress of the men and women on whose verdict Nixon's lease in office hangs. The White House staff seemed to have no strategy or ideas on how to stem the onslaught...
Real Rumble. The disaster cycle was triggered by the recent success of The Poseidon Adventure, a star-laden epic of escape from an ocean liner turned upside down by a capricious tidal wave. Poseidon has grossed $141 million so far, bringing its studio, 20th Century-Fox, $72 million in profit. Such success does not go unimitated in Hollywood, and the studios have now flung themselves into a lemming-like race for the quintessential cataclysm...
After the general debacle on the golf course-won by Miami Dolphin Safety Dick Anderson, who finished near par -the athletes moved to the swimming pool. Boston Celtic Star John Havlicek immediately complained about his lane assignment next to Shotputter Brian Oldfield ('I'll drown in the tidal wave he creates"). After two laps, Oldfield surfaced gasping and decided to watch the close finish between defending Superstar Champion Bob Seagren, a pole vaulter by profession, and Kyle Rote Jr., son of the former New York Giants split end and a professional soccer star in his own right. Rote...
...begin national distribution within four months if things go well. Murdoch has confounded skeptics in the past, and the U.S. may indeed be vulnerable to foreign attack. As another Star story points out: "If all the Chinese jumped up and down in unison, the vibrations would cause a tidal wave that could engulf America...