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...aged job seekers, and even on the Bowery. "Some people are ashamed to talk," she reports, "but others tell you their life stories. Some leave their phone numbers, just in case I might hear of an opening." Shields, who holds a master's degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, joined TIME as a Business reporter-researcher in 1969 and became a correspondent in 1973. Unemployment, she finds, is not only a demanding and depressing journalistic beat, but also a matter of personal concern. "Unfortunately," she says, "it's easy to find candidates to report about- just among...
...vice-presidential prospect. Kennerly virtually lived with the Fords at their Virginia home during the two months of the vice-presidential confirmation hearings. Later he traveled for eight months with Ford. Young Kenner-ly's irreverence and high lifestyle, which includes a Mercedes, a six-room Georgetown house, and an affinity for pretty women, richly entertained Ford, who came to regard him as an "adopted son." The day after he was sworn in as President, Ford asked Kennerly to be the official White House photographer...
...bachelors. When not politicking back home, Jackson routinely spent Saturdays in his office, devoted evenings to dining with constituents who came to Washington or, more frequently, to poring over staff and technical reports, newspapers and magazines. On Sundays he would some times play softball with the Kennedy clan in Georgetown. Teammates describe him as an adequate second baseman but a rather weak hitter. Occasionally he would date; his most frequent such companion in the 1950s was Helen Langer, niece of the late Senator from North Dakota...
...image has recently been tarnished by the revival of hazing. At a pre-initiation hazing last fall at the Zeta Beta Tau chapter at New Jersey's Monmouth College, William Flowers, 19, was suffocated when a 5-ft.-deep mock grave in which he was lying collapsed. At Georgetown University, a fraternity pledge was hospitalized, according to campus rumor, after he was forced to chug-a-lug glass after glass of "purple Jesus," a potent mix of vodka, rum, grape, orange and lemon juices...
...underwear." He watched, appalled, in the early 1950s as both Jack-still on crutches from his back injury-and Ted urged on Bob during a bloody fistfight with a brawny college student whose buddies kept knocking fly balls into the midst of a Kennedy touch-football game in Georgetown. "They had been trained that way," O'Brien recalls. "If Bob had been beaten, Ted would have stepped in, and if Ted had been beaten, I suppose the Senator would have gone after the fellow with his crutches...