Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kahn never seems to neglect his work for more than a moment or two. Whenever he gets into a plane or car, he starts scribbling something. Occasionally he gives the impression of a slightly manic professor as he strolls about in his stocking feet, commenting on whatever comes into his mind. But he also appears to have no trouble relaxing at his Washington home, where he lives with his wife, Mary, a silk-screen artist; they have three children. Kahn swims, skis, jogs and likes to sing Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. A certain whimsy is often on display...
Perhaps many American women are just not attracted by political careers. Other opportunities are opening in more secure and lucrative jobs. Says New York City Council President Carol Bellamy: "Politics has a terrible reputation. We're striving to come up to the level of the used-car salesman. So if you have some options, who's going to go into politics?" Why, indeed, would a career woman select a field in which she is likely to have to invest a lot of money, disrupt her family and probably end up thwarted...
...accepted presents of $100,000 from each of her two brothers as a "show of sympathy and liking." He maintained that his former wife's death was clearly a suicide and that she had tried to take her life twice before, once as a student when she crashed her car and once before her marriage by swallowing sleeping pills...
...equipment was only two years old and already showed signs of neglect. Toilets that the Chinese once scrubbed meticulously were now subjected to desultory and occasional swabbings by Tanzanian and Zambian workers. The dining car was clean but cramped and hot; its $2.50 menu, passengers joked, included only two choices: chicken and rice, and rice and chicken. In second and third class, travelers swayed together, jammed six or eight to a compartment...
...hospital to see ailing Bishop André-Marie Deskur, the same friend he had visited the day after his election. According to church sources, when the Pope slipped quietly out of the Vatican for his return visit, he wore a priest's black cassock and was whisked off in a car with Rome license plates?instead of using his telltale Mercedes with its Vatican plates. It was an almost unheard-of thing for a Pope to do, and there was no official confirmation of the trip. But set against the week's other gestures, it seemed entirely in character...