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Elsewhere round the country, it is mostly ashes for the G.O.P. In the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, the Democrats hope to pick up as many as 16 congressional seats. Connecticut's Democratic Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, is favored to become the first woman in the nation's history to be elected Governor on her own by defeating Republican Robert Steele, himself an attractive young Congressman...
...family than to that of the stereotypical political wife. But generalizations about political husbands are risky -there are so few of them. Of 535 members of Congress, only 16 are women; all are in the House, and only ten are married. There are no women Governors, although Connecticut Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, hopes to change that in November...
...centuries of American politics, there have been only three women Governors, and all three-Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming, Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson of Texas and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama-followed in their husbands' footsteps. Congresswoman Ella Grasso, 55, of Windsor Locks, Conn., is not accustomed to following in anyone's footsteps; her husband of 32 years is a retired school principal, and the toehold she won in the statehouse in Hartford was strictly her own achievement...
...only child of an immigrant baker, Ella Tambussi Grasso is a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke who blends Italian warmth with Yankee efficiency. An early advocate of consumerism, she worked her way up the political ladder, starting as a state legislator in 1953; she was Connecticut's secretary of state for twelve years before being elected to Congress in 1970. Grasso will face either Congressman Robert Steele or Bridgeport Mayor Nicholas Panuzio in November. The latest poll taken by Republicans shows her to be so far ahead of either candidate that the party is keeping the results...
...Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie, two of the all-time greats of jazz, are down at the Cape Cod Coliseum in South Yarmouth (a little over an hour's drive) tonight. Fitzgerald is particularly amazing; the venerable singer still has what may well be the best female voice in the world...