Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost everybody seems to have a story about the energy problem. Secretary of the Treasury Michael Blumenthal phoned his 90-year-old father in California on a Sunday night. "Can't you do something about gas?" the old gentleman asked. The secretary's sister, also living in California, had always made a weekly drive to see their father. That Sunday she had called to say she did not have gas enough for the trip. "Well, Dad," answered Mike, a little extra feeling in his voice, "it's a big problem...
...with relatives who have been forced into exile or executed by the Khomeini government are obviously going to stay put. Others have been getting word from friends or relatives to keep their distance. An electrical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin describes his latest phone conversation with his father, who is still in Iran. "He seems afraid, like when the Shah was in power. He said, 'Don't goof off over there.' That means don't say any bad things about Khomeini or you will be in trouble with the government when you come home...
...subcommittee on which he once sat. Now Brooke is taking a second wife: Anne Fleming, 30, of Saint Martin in the West Indies. Fleming speaks four languages, is a gourmet cook and opera buff. But her husband is obviously as impressed by her political credentials: her great-grandfather, grandfather, father and uncle have all been mayors of French Saint Martin...
...Born in Chicago, hard by Wrigley Field, the third child of a couple "in the restaurant business" (which, from the ironic Jones argot, translates as "waiter and waitress"), Rickie Lee had a vagabond childhood. Her parents split up, reunited, drifted from state to state and job to job. Her father sang a lot, wrote his daughter a little tune called The Moon Is Made of Gold ("So don't feel bad because the sun went down/ The moon is made of gold"), which she includes in her show. Kicked out of high school in Olympia, Wash., Rickie Lee started...
...leave from IBM, she became a White House Fellow, worked for Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, and began to collect powerful friends in Washington. Pfeiffer left IBM in 1976, after marrying fellow V.P. Ralph Pfeiffer Jr., the divorced father of ten children. She turned down several job offers, including one from President Carter, who wanted to make her Secretary of Commerce. Her reasons: she needed time to recuperate from a thyroid cancer operation, and she was reluctant to spend so much time away from her husband. Pfeiffer then worked as a top-drawer consultant to several major companies...