THE ADMINISTRATION: Trying to Avert a Collision

During a two-day visit to Florida last week, Gerald Ford took time out for 18 holes of golf in the Jackie Gleason Inverrary Classic tournament in Lauderhill. After flubbing shots in several sand traps, plunking one ball into a small pond, and missing putts all over the place, the President lamented that he was not doing very well. "About as well as you are doing with Congress?" one reporter asked. Replied Ford: "I'm going to do better with both."

Not necessarily. On the links, Ford ended up with a duffer's score of 100....

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