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Around the fireplaces of Georgetown and out in Maryland and Virginia, the intriguing questions for the presidential year were why Jerry Ford, so amiable and so much like other Americans, was in such low esteem and how Democrat Jimmy Carter, the former Governor of Georgia, had emerged from obscurity to win a place as a serious contender for the nomination of his party...
Special Dilemma. Graham rarely relaxes. Her legendary Georgetown parties are devoted to government and diplomatic figures, and even on her 250-acre estate on Martha's Vineyard, Washington never seems far away. Says she: "I want to win a Pulitzer Prize for management...
...Bicentennial design by Alexander Calder. At home, she brings in Liberty's puppies for guests to cuddle in the family living room, where the Fords do their personal entertaining−usually sit-on-the-floor buffet suppers. On a glorious Indian summer day last week, she strolled along Georgetown's Wisconsin Avenue, window-shopping. A florist thrust a bouquet into her hands; a young woman impetuously gave her the book she was reading. A touched Mrs. Ford said: "I think they like to see me as a normal human being, doing the same thing they are doing...
...John Patrick Sears, 35, an amiable, Georgetown-educated lawyer with a scholarly understanding of the tides that move American politics. Despite his youth at the time, he was a prime strategist of Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, served briefly as a presidential aide but left after he was frozen out by the jealous H.R. Haldeman. He became a guest lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, then returned to a lucrative Washington law practice. Though the Reagan committee is headed officially by Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, even he admits that Sears is the master planner...
Cancer Factor. Dr. Michael Kerr, a clinical professor of psychiatry in the family section of Georgetown University Medical School, believes that emotional problems helped produce cancer in 25 of 30 cases he has treated at the Vincent T. Lombardi Cancer Center. "We're not saying that the emotional system of a family causes cancer, but it is a factor...