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...this week's report, Witteman traveled with Iacocca to Rochester on the Chrysler executive jet, watched Iacocca make decisions in Detroit about new models, and observed him working the crowd at a cocktail party for House Democratic leaders at the Greenbrier in West Virginia. He interviewed Iacocca's two daughters as well as present and former executives at Chrysler and Ford and even joined Iacocca at home for a dinner prepared by his fiancee...
...gone to the Greenbrier, an isolated resort in West Virginia, to escape the postresignation curiosity of Washington, but continued, minute by minute, to manage the Middle East crisis. The President had decided that I should remain Secretary of State until my successor was sworn in, or until the President wanted me to do otherwise...
...long a rheumatic invalid, was placed gently into a hollowed-out tree trunk and slowly immersed in the sulfurous waters of a local spring. Suddenly she jumped out of the trunk and shouted, "I'm cured! I'm cured!" Last week, at White Sulphur Springs' stately Greenbrier resort hotel, the State Department quizzed and counseled 31 of the 53 Americans who had been held hostage in Iran. After three days of therapy and relaxation, however, none came out crying "I'm cured!" That may be because very few of them appear to have been sick...
...long separation probably did aggravate the problems of couples whose marriages already had been strained. A few of the returnees said that they felt the need for psychiatric help. There was some speculation at Greenbrier that perhaps the returnees facing the most serious readjustment problems were among those who had declined to attend, though many might just as logically have stayed away because they felt that they needed no help. None of the Marines showed up, perhaps because, as Marine Colonel James L. Cooper, commanding officer of all the Marine security guards, contended, "What some soft-living State Department type...
...Greenbrier, Louisa Kennedy, wife of former Hostage Moorhead Kennedy, announced that the hostage family group she helped found, called FLAG (Family Liaison Action Group) will now concentrate on gaining financial compensation for the returned Americans. Pending such financial aid, the State Department last week conferred its second highest honor, the Award of Valor, on the Marine guards and diplomatic personnel who had been seized...