Word: armstrongs
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...months on his own in January 1975, he was asked to show his collection to the First Lady. Betty Ford was soon joined as a customer by Daughter Susan and Barbara Walters, the current Miss America and three of her predecessors, Polly Bergen and Ambassador to Britain Anne Armstrong. Capraro's brightly colored, low-priced jumpsuits ($100) and one-piece dresses (from $60) are as close to Middle America as Seventh Avenue can get-and last year Capraro clothes sold $14 million retail...
...best woman politician I've seen," said a Texas Republican last week of Anne Legendre Armstrong. "She's sugar and steel." Gerald Ford, who will announce her appointment as U.S. Ambassador to Britain this week, plainly agrees. Those who knew her as co-chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1972 or as a Cabinet-rank White House counselor during the Nixon Administration were equally extravagant in their notices. At once tough, gracious and articulate, Mrs. Armstrong is one of Ford's more distinguished appointments. The only shadow of criticism is that she doggedly defended Richard Nixon...
...going to London to replace incoming Commerce Secretary Elliot Richardson, Mrs. Armstrong, 48, will become the 14th woman to be named a U.S. ambassador since World War II (six are currently on duty). She is also the first woman to win a major ambassadorial post since Clare Boothe Luce served in Rome in the Eisenhower years...
...daughter of wealthy New Orleans Coffee Importer Armant Legendre, who belonged to a Creole family, Anne Armstrong earned a Phi Beta Kappa key at Vassar and worked briefly for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. In 1950 she married wealthy Texas Rancher Tobin Armstrong (who will probably accompany her to London) and became mistress of a 50,000-acre Southern Texas spread. Besides being mother of five children, Mrs. Armstrong helps keep the ranch books, works with the Santa Gertrudis cattle on occasion-"She can cut a herd with the best of them," says her husband. She is also an active...
...counselor to Nixon, Anne Armstrong had a, wide range of responsibilities-sitting on the Council on Wage and Price Stability and the domestic council, among other jobs. Her name was briefly mentioned as a possible Vice President after Spiro Agnew resigned...