New York, Nov. 11—Concerning Mr. Ford’s speech and the reaction to it, a few observations:
1. Although it is true, as it has been observed, that even paranoids have real enemies, the paranoid reaction by prominent New York City spokesmen to Mr. Ford’s refusal, as he put it, to bail out New York City is surrealistic. The New York Daily News headline the next morning was: “ford to city: drop dead.” The New York Times, as ever preferring orotundity to the vernacular, wailed the identical wail in its editorial columns at exorbitant length. And James Reston, looking down upon us from his perch in the Milky Way, talked about the end of the American empire, done in by regional factionalism.
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