Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Betty Hamilton Evansville...
John White emerged, he looked harassed and talked dully. Hamilton Jordan slammed a door against TV cameras. The normally chatty Jerry Rafshoon had nothing to say. Political Coordinator Tim Kraft looked in need of an Alka-Seltzer. The President, who had been privately watching the returns with Rosalynn, did not even appear. At a press conference in Kansas City two days later, he remarked laconically: "I think the Democrats did fairly well on a nationwide basis. But we lost some very key races...
Over the years, Cavileer has been assisted in the press box by a band of alumni devoted to the cause of Harvard football. His right-hand man for many years was Hamilton Holton "Holty" Wood, who was captain of the J.V. football team in 1939. Wood's maternal grandfather was one of the thirteen men who got together and donated the Yale Bowl. Wood's brother operated the Stadium's scoreboard and his daughter Ceelie Wood now types out the play-by-play charts for members of the press...
...Hamilton says a woman who seldom makes sexism an issue has more effect when she does make an objection. "I got called the 'prettiest little girl in our class' by a classmate at a job-hunting party. I pointed out to him later that that wasn't a compliment--and he won't do it again. If he had been used to my objecting to his vocabulary, he wouldn't have taken me seriously...
...Business School is "on the whole not a sexist place," Hamilton adds. Most professors, she says, are extremely careful not to make sexist remarks and to give women students an equal opportunity to speak in class. Her one criticism was that the required first-year organizational behavior classes do not adequately cover the problems that arise when businessmen have to work with female colleagues for the first time...