Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...friends from Alexandria, Va., gave Gerald Ford a cartoon recently that showed a pathetic-looking John Q. Public handing the President a cracked and scarred world globe and ordering...
Good Shepherd Church of Alexandria, Va., was once the embodiment of suburban Catholicism. The cavernous cinder-block building itself resembled a supermarket plunked down amidst an affluent neighborhood by some careless zoning board. The nine-year-old parish's membersinp list, drawn largely from the close-cropped and constantly changing ranks at the Pentagon and nearby Fort Belvoir, had initially been compiled from the local welcome-wagon files...
...arrived at 5:55 p.m., accompanied by her daughter Susan and Nancy Howe, her personal assistant, and went up to the handsome, Williamsburg blue presidential suite on the third floor. As it happened, Mrs. Peter Abbruzzese, a good friend and former Alexandria neighbor, was in the hospital, having just given birth to a girl. The Abbruzzeses had already decided to name the baby Katherine Elizabeth-the Elizabeth for Betty Ford. Susan Ford, who had been the Abbruzzeses' baby sitter for years, left her mother and delivered a present to the maternity ward-two satin baby pillows that Mrs. Ford...
Fathy, the son of an Alexandria landowner, first became interested in these clients in 1926 when his job with a government agency took him near a family property where peasants lived in stench, filth and misery. "Because the place was owned by my father, I suddenly felt terribly responsible for it all," he says. "I decided I must do something." Using the architectural training he received at Cairo's Higher School of Engineering, he decided to design decent dwelling for peasants, using locally available bricks made of mud and straw...
...wrangle with more manageable stock on a Utah ranch. Postponing his freshman term at Duke University, the publicity-shy son of the President will seek out the private life of a ranch hand. Despite Ford's detour from Duke, his classmates at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., apparently have no doubts about his future. He and Coed Janice Hodges were voted "most likely to succeed" by then" fellow seniors, and posed for the appropriate yearbook picture, costumed as Bonnie and Clyde...