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...Davis Jr., joined the President at Camp David. He had taken along his cross-country skis in case there was snow, but he was disappointed. He made a few phone calls, one to his mother, still recuperating in Georgia from a broken hip, and another to Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso, who was in a Hartford hospital undergoing chemotherapy for cancer of the liver...
...Detroit bureau chief for seven years and now is able to study firsthand America's deadliest commercial competitors. There are notable differences in style, he reports: "Detroit's press previews used to be orchestrated like TV spectaculars, with carefully scripted speeches, followed by eating and drinking and Ella Fitzgerald singing, Minnesota Fats doing billiard tricks, or Glenn Miller's band creating nostalgia. The merchandising was razzle-dazzle, the sales claims often outrageous and heady." Not so in Tokyo. "The typical Japanese new car preview," says Reingold, "is an hour in a packed, hot hotel salon facing...
...President is not his brother's keeper." But Koch, a Carter backer, went on to say that "the Billy Carter scandal is a serious matter and will have an adverse impact on President Carter's chances for re-election." Said Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso: "I would have spanked Brother Billy a long time...
...high mesa, on desolate scrubland wreathed by a dark cathedral sky, a 67-year-old silver-haired Navajo woman carves fresh mutton in her tidy one-room hogan. In golden lamplight, she rakes glowing coals from a wood stove onto the dirt floor to barbecue the evening meal. Ella Deal has borne children and, with her husband Leonard, has tended sheep here for nearly 40 years. She is a descendant of Navajos who returned from the terrible "Long Walk" of 1864, when the U.S. cavalry herded 8,000 tribesmen 400 miles, from northern Arizona to Fort Sumner in eastern...
...represents his nation at relocation hearings, understands the legal justice of the case. "I realize the Hopis want to make use of what is rightfully theirs," he says. "But there are human beings out there. The stress on them is tremendous." Percy knows well. He is one of Ella Deal's children, and was unable to return to the family land after his schooling because new grazing permits were unavailable and new housing was forbidden. "We've lost so much," Ella Deal says as her guests finish. "I want my children to come back and learn Indian ways...