Word: agent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political strategist who is the White House's closest equivalent to a chief of staff. Last week was particularly grim for Jordan, both personally and professionally. Late in the week, he was hurriedly summoned home to Albany, Ga., after his father, Richard Jordan, 69, a retired insurance agent and former Army major, suffered a stroke (he died the following day). Earlier, Jordan and the White House as a whole had had to slog through yet another of Ham's unwanted and unwinnable bouts with the gossip columnists...
...doubtless rehearsed him on what to say-and not say -about his activities in the U.S.; in exchange for getting him back, the Justice Department has agreed to drop an indictment charging Park with 36 counts of assorted crimes, including bribery, mail fraud and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. But Park could still risk jail should he commit perjury in his interrogation; and Leon Jaworski, the House Ethics Committee's Special Counsel, is persuaded that that fact will encourage him to tell it like...
Eileen Ford, still the most successful model agent by far, is either motherly or tyrannical, depending on the viewpoint. Tiegs, who is Ford's client on the East Coast, has no complaints and probably should have none, considering that her income, largely earned through Ford, has been estimated at $300,000 a year. But Ford is not universally popular says a fashion photographer with satisfaction: "Now she's up against a businessman who's taking her best talent...
When she was 16, a talent agent came to her high school to speak about careers, and, he says now, "I saw this stunning young girl listening very attentively at the back of the room...
...seen in a memorable swimsuit ad for Cole of California in Seventeen. "There was gentleness that came through. Her face was almost Victorian," recalls the stylist for the session, Marion Samerjan. "You just had to fall in love with her." West Coast Talent Agent Nina Blanchard saw the photo and offered Cheryl a contract...