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...both a diplomatic duty and a sentimental journey for President Carter's mother. While her son voiced mock concern that "when Mother gets home we'll either have very good relations with India or they'll be destroyed once again," Miss Lillian, 78, and Grandson Chip, 26, flew to New Delhi to lead the official U.S. delegation at the funeral last week of Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Jimmy Carter had nothing to worry about. His mother's Southern grace charmed everyone, including Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who invited her home for what Miss Lillian called...
During his fireside chat last week, Carter introduced what may prove to be the most memorable symbol of an Administration that promises to make steady use of symbolism-the beige wool cardigan, a favorite of his. Carter wore the sweater at dinner with Rosalynn, Amy, Sons Chip and Jeff and their wives. In the library after his meal, Carter asked TV Adviser Barry Jagoda and Adman Jerry Rafshoon what they thought of the cardigan. They told him to check it himself on the TV monitor. All agreed it looked fine. Then Carter rehearsed his talk before the TelePrompTer (which...
Jimmy is not the only Carter with a new life. Chip, 26, has an $8,000-a-year post, working on special projects for the Democratic National Committee; Jeff, 24, formerly a student at Georgia State, is studying for a degree in geography at George Washington University. As for Rosalynn, she has enough First Lady duties to rate her own East Wing office. She meets there each morning with her 18-member staff, including Press Secretary Mary Finch Hoyt, to discuss plans for upcoming state dinners-on Feb. 14 for Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo...
...describe, they had 22 hours to write a solution. In most cases it was an all-night process. Cornell's Pat Jeffries worked at a blackboard and worried about his presentation ("I'm an actor, and part of this competition is theater"). Teammate Tom Mulligan nibbled chocolate-chip cookies and poked at his minicomputer. Said Cornell's Nancy Read in the small hours: "As the evening has progressed we have done nothing but enlarge the scope of our ignorance." Knowing nods greeted her, and the team decided to take a 1 a.m. pizza break. The reports were...
Died. Ruth G. Wakefield, 73, creator of the tollhouse chocolate-chip cookie; of cancer; in Plymouth, Mass. In 1930 Wakefield and her husband opened an inn in an old tollhouse on the Boston-to-New Bedford road. One day she decided to add chocolate bits cut from a semisweet bar to liven up her mother's cookie recipe. The creation was an instant success. During World War II, millions of tollhouse cookies were shipped to servicemen overseas...