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...fact, to deal with touchy personnel problems. Yet the White House is no place in which to seek serenity or avoid the inevitable friction of strong personalities grasping for power. Carter has depended too heavily on his Georgia cronies, failing to cut some of his ties with, say, Bert Lance or Andrew Young as early as he should have. He pledged, as all new Presidents do, to reach out for strong men to direct Cabinet departments ? and then, in effect, fired several (including Joseph Califano at Health, Education and Welfare and W. Michael Blumenthal at Treasury) when they became...
...fishing by himself for hours on end in a Georgia pond or a Pennsylvania trout stream, or jogging through the woods of Camp David, to which he and Rosalynn now retreat almost weekly. Except for Charles Kirbo, the Atlanta attorney who is his confidant, and his former Budget Director, Bert Lance, he has few close friends and virtually none in Washington. He came to office running against Washington, the Congress, special interest groups and politics-as-usual; in many respects he is still against them...
Pogrebin, 41, has done her homework: eight years of research and writing, 16 of marriage and 15 of child rearing went into the book. She says of herself and her husband Bert, 46, a labor lawyer: "For the first few years I'm sure we raised Abigail and Robin, our twins [girls, now 15] the regular way, surrounded by dolls and carriages." In 1970 Pogrebin, a Brandeis graduate at 19 who had risen to vice president of the publishing firm of Bernard Geis Associates, wrote a book called How to Make It in a Man 's World. Preparing...
Today the Pogrebin family is the best advertisement for Growing Up Free. Letty and Bert, sitting around the dinner table in their turn-of-the-century, oak-paneled apartment on Manhattan's West Side, look slightly abashed when they talk about their successfully egalitarian marriage. "Things have turned out very well," says Bert, who credits luck and economic good fortune, as well as Letty's "overactive metabolism." Says he: "She never accepted efficiency as a means of allocating responsibility. I could never say she should do the dishes because she did them better." Replies Letty: "But he never...
...goals on kicks of 29 and 37 yards, after New England went ahead for the last time. And Chuck Foreman scored on a 1-yard plunge with five seconds remaining. Ivory's lightning dash at 7:18 of the third quarter followed an 8-yd. TD pass from quarterback Bert Jones to Reese McCall that had given Baltimore a 21-17 lead after coming from behind for the third time...