Word: hamilton
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...novelist (The Hiding Place), playwright (The Man in the Glass Booth) and actor of stage and screen, perhaps best known for his roistering portrayal of Quint, the professional shark killer in Jaws; and Virginia Jansen, 37, his secretary; he for the third time, she for the first; in Hamilton, Bermuda...
...they, in a region where a porch is a "pye-azzuh" and the capital of Austria-as well as a Georgia town by the same name-is "Vy-anna"? Vienna, Ga., incidentally, is the home town of Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell (see THE PRESS). Campaign Director Hamilton Jordan-or, as it is pronounced down home, "Jer-dan"-is from Albany, which, unlike New York's capital, is accented on the second syllable...
Except for Campaign Manager Hamilton Jordan, none of the candidate's 250 full-time staff members has served longer or is paid more ($22,000) than sandy-haired, chain-smoking Powell, 32. He is also closer to the candidate than even Jordan. "Jody probably knows me better than anyone except my wife," Carter has said. If the candidate wins in November, Powell will probably become one of the more powerful presidential press secretaries in decades...
...selection process neared an end, Carter's campaign manager Hamilton Jordan smilingly told TIME: "Jimmy ordered a pair of dice sent up to his room last night." That was a joke, of course, but the fact is that though Carter proceeded methodically, in the end, as he said, "it was a subjective analysis" -a matter of chemistry. He liked Mondale's intelligence, self-sufficiency and dry humor. The earnestly handsome Mondale, like Carter, is a Protestant (Presbyterian), but as the Georgian said: "I can't balance a ticket all that many ways...
...walk away from all that power. If Jimmy ever got bigheaded, the first guy to straighten him out would be Kirbo." Then Rafshoon adds wishfully: "Boy, would I love to do a film on Charlie Kirbo. I can see it all: Henry Fonda playing the lead." Says Campaign Director Hamilton Jordan: "If Jimmy Carter were running against Charlie Kirbo, I'd vote for Charlie...