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...Minute Manager, Blanchard and Johnson...
...their search for beautiful brawn, casting directors more and more head directly to the chief suppliers of male pulchritude: the modeling agencies. "The big agencies are the screening ground," says Nina Blanchard, who runs her own agency in Los Angeles. "I get six or seven calls a day from casters and producers asking to see our new people. They always want to know the name of the guy on the cover of Gentlemen 's Quarterly...
...Minute Manager, Blanchard and Johnson...
...Blanchard, a Unitarian who is pro-choice on abortion, had good reason to choose Mansour to run the state's biggest agency. Her order, the Sisters of Mercy of the Union, runs 21 hospitals as well as other public service agencies in Michigan. Sister Agnes, who has a doctorate in biochemistry from Georgetown University, is an adept administrator who boosted both enrollment and endowments during the past decade as president of Detroit's Mercy College...
When Governor-elect Blanchard selected Mansour in December to be director of the public services department, she asked both her order and Archbishop Szoka for permission to serve. The order readily approved. So did Szoka, but he states that he gave his support only on condition that Mansour would clarify her position on abortion so that it was in line with church teaching. Szoka noted that the nun "cannot control the laws of the state," and added: "To make a big issue of this one thing seems a bit sensational...