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...quite a few of George Wallace's diehard supporters remained dour at their favorite's demise. Lester Skinner, 57, a Gaffney, S.C., real estate broker, cast a reluctant vote for Carter only after looking his hero in the eye and asking him "if he really meant we should support Carter. He told me he really meant it." Skinner expects Wallace supporters to "follow George's advice and vote for Carter over Reagan" if the Californian is nominated...
John Leo's article on est [June 7] moves me to write. I am a real estate broker in Los Angeles and since I took the est training a year and a half ago my income has nearly doubled, my relationship with my wife, which was O.K., has flowered into a beautiful thing and, most dramatically, my father and I, after 43 years of not communicating, have become fast friends...
Endorsements cascaded in. Indeed, the final rush to Carter began even before the Super Bowl votes were counted, and it was led by that shrewd old power broker, Chicago Boss Richard Daley. Carter had long been courting the mayor, often visiting him when he went through Chicago and phoning him every ten days or so. Months ago, Daley told close friends that "what we need is young, fresh blood in the party," and his cronies figured he would ultimately come out for Carter (TIME, March 29). At a press conference last Tuesday afternoon, Daley predicted that Carter would...
...Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam. He has preached to Presidents, helped bury them, prayed with them and counseled them. He has put his cathedral into governmental life, opened the Gothic chasms to Methodists, Jews and Billy Graham. Dean Sayre is theologian, historian and a bit of a power broker. He is worried -but fascinated by the political drama all about...
...girls were expected to get married then. I met a guy, and decided to marry him--he seemed like a nice guy." This last statement is said with a wistful smile. As it turned out, he wasn't. After a divorce Yudie went to work as a real estate broker and could never bring herself to marry again--not for fear of losing her independence, but because the Right Man never came along. Her voice is cheerful but it speaks her loneliness, and her smile is one of regret. "When you're alone, sometimes you feel you'd done...