Word: hydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book, Schiff is quoted as saying that she first met Roosevelt at his Hyde Park, N.Y., estate in June 1936, shortly after he had accepted the Democratic nomination for a second term as President. Her husband at the time (she has had four) was George Backer, a New York City real estate operator who worked in F.D.R.'s early political campaigns. Backer had converted Dorothy, then 33, from lifelong Republicanism to an active role in F.D.R.'s 1936 drive. Dorothy and Franklin began seeing each other often at Hyde Park...
...Roosevelt took her through a "cottage" retreat at Hyde Park: "The Secret Service were standing on the terrace with their backs to the French windows, oblivious as usual. He wheeled himself into the bedroom, and there was this double bed ... I stayed with him because ... you don't say no to the President of the United States ... Besides, I had nothing better...
...week at Ford's Theater in Washington in a one-woman biographical play titled Eleanor. Besides body padding and capped buck teeth, the Eileen-to-Eleanor transformation required extensive background study. Heckart listened to old broadcasts by the First Lady, spent three days at the family's Hyde Park home and read more than two dozen books on her subject. "I wish that a great deal of her graciousness and loveliness would rub off on me," says Eileen. Something has. "I recently gave an autograph," she recalls, "and, my God, I signed 'Elea' before I realized...
...metamorphose into traffic cops of the maelstrom in the foul land--known as slaughter alley--during the day labor at desk jobs and are often doctors, lawyers, and school teachers. There's a Jekyll and Hyde element deeply ingrained in officiating. "I'm always surprised at the high-class people who go into it and stay with it," says Diehl. Officials are often "pillars of the community who no one questions," he says, "but put on a black and white shirt and they suddenly become suspect...
...being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job or simple justice." Maddox cried foul and started sniping at Carter. He has never stopped. He even pursued Carter to New Hampshire last month to denounce him as "the McGovern of '76" and "the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...