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Ford chose him for sound, practical reasons. The post traditionally goes to a Westerner: Hathaway was born on a homestead, worked his way up to become first a successful lawyer and then the most popular governor in Wyoming's history. He is also conservative enough to help mend Ford's political fences with the G.O.P.'s right wing. Beyond that, Hathaway, though somewhat stolid, is a proven administrator capable of running a 56,000-person department...
...going to do, unless you have some objection, we should do your arrival at Miami International, not at Homestead...
Martha Clarke, a retired schoolteacher in the mythical town of Homochitto, Miss., still lives in the family homestead. But now, in her mid-70s, she is almost blind and beginning to turn senile. Picking their way past a Spanish oak tree and a small jungle of cane and Virginia creeper, Martha's nephews and nieces stage a meeting of the clan in the ancestral manse. While she sits in her period rocker, they discuss their Aunt Martha problem as if she were as inanimate as the leather classics in the glass bookcases about them. "Isn't it strange...
...emerald peau de soie and a rhinestone choker, Mrs. Norman Mailer No. 5 was singing the blues. In a Stockbridge, Mass., boite not far from the Mailer homestead, former Nightclub Singer Carol Stevens, 41, ran through a dozen old standards drawn mainly from Helen Morgan's repertory. Torch style, Carol aimed a few of the numbers directly at an impassive Norman in a stageside seat: The Man I Love and My Heart Belongs to Daddy. She also sang Gee Baby, Ain 't I Good to You after acknowledging to Male Chauvinist Mailer that it was really...
What costs more than the Krupp diamond or a drawing by Rembrandt? Answer: a lonely homestead tucked away in the sylvan woodlands of New Jersey. Though there is nothing so gauche as a FOR SALE sign on the front lawn of this brand-new, Mediterranean-style villa, the hunt is on for a buyer The price tag: a cool...