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...anybody listening? Well, no. In the dingy second floor office from which he directs the state Republican Party and the Goodyear tire franchise in Manchester, G.O.P. Chairman Gerald Carmen concedes that "the ordinary, rank and file voter isn't all that stirred up. You think he's trying to decide between Reagan and Crane? Nah. He's wondering whether his car will start in this cold weather. He's hoping the temperature won't drop to 20 below tonight...
...Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, the desk clerk seems first to rebut, then to affirm, Carmen's assessment. "Been keeping up with all the presidential candidates traipsing through Manchester?" "Yeah," he says brightly. "A couple of them were right here at the lodge." "Which ones?" A gulp. "I can't remember which ones...
...first panel, Carmen Singleton picks up the phone. "How nice of you to call, Mother." In the second panel, she is outraged: "What do you mean it was all my fault, I wasn't good enough for him, and if he had any sense he would have left me years ago!" Then she realizes her mistake. "Oh," says Carmen, "it's his mother...
...Carmen is, of course, recently divorced. She is also the female lead in a new comic strip that now appears in 15 newspapers. The nation's first comic strip about divorce, Splitsville tries-and mostly succeeds-to laugh at the ridiculous, sad and foolish foibles of couples that can't live together...
...indignation was Carter's abrupt dismissal of assertive ex-Congresswoman Bella Abzug as co-chair of the National Advisory Committee for Women, an action the President apparently thought would cause little trouble. To his surprise, 26 of the 40 members of the committee, including Co-Chair Carmen Delgado Votaw, resigned in protest...