Word: armstrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concert. That's what the people at Berklee School of Music decided to do tonight. At 8 p.m. in Berklee's Performance Center, the Berklee School will present Berklee's all-star music faculty playing 200 years of jazz. Their big band ensemble will take on Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong. Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and others. To get to the performance center hop a Dudley bus to Auditorium. Tickets are $5, $4 and $3. There is a $1.50 reduction for those with student...
...Learjets whistled along for 4,965 miles, touching down in such cities as Jackson, Miss., Chicago, Erie, Pa., Cincinnati and Atlanta. Mayors and Governors welcome her, a phalanx of motorcycle police escorts her on freeways cleared of traffic, audiences in crowded halls give her standing ovations. Bob Armstrong, Carter's campaign manager in Texas, says frankly, "Some people think Rosalynn is a better campaigner than Jimmy...
...Ford's floor manager in Kansas City, Michigan Senator Robert Griffin, promoted Colleague Howard Baker (who, perhaps coincidentally, may be Griffin's chief competition for the Senate minority leader's job next January). The First Family had its preferences too. Betty Ford urged more than token consideration for Anne Armstrong; Son Jack liked a mayor, Pete Wilson of San Diego, and two Governors, Christopher ("Kit") Bond of Missouri and Dan Evans of Washington. Henry Kissinger promoted a lame-duck incumbent, his former mentor Nelson Rockefeller. Of the Cabinet members, only Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz recommended Dole highly?because...
Being First Lady delights Betty Ford. "In personal terms, we are spending more time together than ever before. Even when he's traveling, we are together." Though she lost her bid for Anne Armstrong for Vice President, she plans to continue to lobby for the ratification of ERA, as well as some kind of Social Security program for the nation's housewives, "just as if they worked in an office." Only half in fun, she says, "After I'm no longer First Lady, I'm going to lobby for a salary for this...
Through the week, the President's associates flatteringly floated a number of new names as vice-presidential possibilities, including that of such a nationally unknown Senator as New Mexico's Pete Domenici, 44. Also on new Ford lists were Ambassador to Great Britain Anne Armstrong, 48, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills, 42. Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, 56, would deflect most Watergate-related attacks by virtue of his Saturday Night Massacre heroics. Treasury Secretary William Simon, 48, would draw attention to Ford's success with the economy and is a strong manager. Besides, cracked...