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...calm good sense and dry wit have made Kirbo something of a legend among the Carter staff members; they offer him deference mixed with affection. Says Carter's media director, Gerald Rafshoon: "Charlie never plays any roles, any games. He never tries to impress anybody. All the rest of us need something from Jimmy. Kirbo doesn't want anything. He's the only guy I know who could 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...
...want to really put on the dog, though, you could shell out six bucks a ticket for the rooftop boxes at Fenway and watch the ballgame in isolated splendor. But you probably don't have any out of town clients to impress and our informal survey shows that none of you hold high positions in the Lincoln, Mass. chapter of the National Association of Manufacturers. In that case, the bleachers are your best bet. A slightly alcoholic, bedraggled-looking college kid from some hometown out of the area who knows very little about major league baseball fits in perfectly here...
...Government. The Reagan road show is like an old-fashioned but professional vaudeville act." Dean Fischer was at Reagan's highly emotional victory celebration in Los Angeles. Said Fischer: "Neither of the other candidates I covered-Ford and Carter-has Reagan's star quality. The President can impress crowds with his office. Carter can hold an audience, particularly a black audience, spellbound. But as a showman, Reagan is unparalleled...
...performances were far from enough to impress diehard traditionalists like 1975 Indy Winner Bobby Unser. (By his own ordination, Unser is the chief chauvinist in Indianapolis this year; on his garage is a sign that reads MALE CHAUVINIST PIGS NEED LOVE TOO.) But her credentials were good enough to make independent Car Designer and Builder Rolla Vollstedt think that he had found what he wanted: a woman driver to add to his team, which is headed by Veteran Dick Simon...
...better image," suggests Dominic de Loranzo, publisher of her book. "You take an 18-year-old reporter and tell her you're going to hook her up with the FBI -is she going to say no?" And colleagues at the Tennessean suspect that Srouji was trying to impress her editors with her FBI sources last fall in order to be made a full-time reporter. The one person who knows the answers was not around to offer them. Two days after she was fired, Jacque Srouji bundled up two of her three children and drove off: destination unknown...