It was mad-dogs-and-Englishmen weather in Washington and, although the air conditioners whirred throughout the city, everyone left who could. Members of Congress had dispersed to the four corners of the nation, and by this week President Ford expects to be swimming, playing tennis and loafing in the cool heights of Vail, Colo. That will be his way of marking the first week of his second year in the presidency.
He could do so with considerable satisfaction, since he has managed to keep confounding the critics who are waiting for him to lose his political balance. Friends and foes alike had...
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