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...softball field across from the South Lawn, the feisty White House shortstop argued noisily with the Washington Press Club runner after they collided. "I thought you were second base," the runner insisted. Fat chance. Second base is one of the few positions that Midge Costanza, presidential assistant and after-hours shortstop, does not play. Of the seven senior staff members at the White House, she serves as Carter's sole woman, Northerner, liberal activist and ethnic (if "ethnic" is defined as one with strong ties to a family homeland). She is an all-purpose outsider on an otherwise...
...investment portfolio, maintaining an up-to-date Christmas card list, collating menus or entertaining the kids with a vast Olympiad of electronic games, from TV tennis to Star Trek (destroy the Klingons before they capture the starship Enterprise). Other tasks-reporting on water seepage in the basement, watering the lawn when it reaches a given aridity, locking the front door at night -require the addition of various switches, sensors and motors that can send a house-proud hacker's outlay soaring. Says James Warren, a California microcomputer consultant: "You keep adding components until you exceed your yearly income...
...swooned, cried, keened and passed out from the heat outside the mansion gates. Two people were killed when a drunken driver plowed into the crowd. After the funeral at Graceland, a cortege of 16 white Cadillacs led a slow procession down Elvis Presley Boulevard to the cemetery. There the lawn was banked with some 2,200 floral tributes - an imperial crown of golden mums, hortisculptured hound-dogs and guitars, sunflowers in wine bottles. Memphis ran out of flowers; reinforcements were sent in from California and Colorado...
Sitting by moonlight in overstuffed wicker chairs on the manicured lawn Vance and Sadat surveyed the Middle East situation for 3½ hours-more than twice as long as the American had anticipated. During the session, which was later characterized in American diplomatic phrases as "very useful" and "constructive," Vance put forward some of the proposals" he had brought with him from Washington. Among them: that the Palestine Liberation Organization be allowed to participate in a Geneva Peace Conference only after it recognizes Israel s right to exist; that the boundaries of Isarel be a matter for negotiation; that "real...
...three visitors in the living room and left them with her husband. Minutes later, she and the chauffeur heard raised voices, then gunshots. They rushed into the room to find Ponto mortally wounded by five shots in his head and chest. Albrecht and her accomplices were fleeing across the lawn of the estate. Police theorized that they had planned to kidnap Ponto, and that he had resisted...