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...softball field across from the South Lawn, the feisty White House shortstop argued noisily with the Washington Press Club runner after they collided. "I thought you were second base," the runner insisted. Fat chance. Second base is one of the few positions that Midge Costanza, presidential assistant and after-hours shortstop, does not play. Of the seven senior staff members at the White House, she serves as Carter's sole woman, Northerner, liberal activist and ethnic (if "ethnic" is defined as one with strong ties to a family homeland). She is an all-purpose outsider on an otherwise...
...least influential of the seven staffers who make up the Carter inner circle seems to be Midge Costanza, 44, the former vice mayor of Rochester. She is the group's only female, the only ethnic and the only non-Georgian. One White House watcher wisecracks: "They had hoped she might be handicapped too." Costanza's job: to deal, as she says, with "organized America," meaning special-interest groups such as senior citizens and gay organizations. Costanza is much more liberal than Carter on most issues, and thus far has not had much impact on policy...
...Midge Costanza, women's rights assistant to President Carter
...Margaret ("Midge") Costanza, 44, Carter's assistant for special-interest groups. Formerly vice mayor of Rochester, she is responsible for keeping Carter in touch with the people. Says she: "I am his ears, his eyes, his window." She is the only Northerner and the only outspoken liberal at Lipshutz's daily shape...
...Prince Nicolaus the Magnificent, the composer has been asked to stop writing chamber music for the prince to play on his baryton viol and to drill his 22- man orchestra in opera. Among those who heard Haydn was Archduke Ferdinand, who commissioned him to compose an opera, La Vera Costanza, to be staged in Vienna later this year...