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Hurried Responses. While Chip was working California, Texas, Missouri and Ohio during the past week, his wife Caron, 25, who has a master's degree in early-childhood education, was touring Tennessee, Oklahoma and Kansas, even though she is expecting her first child in February. "I feel good and I want to do my part," she says, "but the campaign pulls one way and my doctor the other." She relishes the action, and after 18 months at it still cannot believe that she would ever be "out talking to hundreds of people about foreign policy...
Meanwhile, Jeff Carter, 24, the shiest of the boys, was rocketing around Oklahoma, where his boots-and-jeans style was especially appreciated. "At first I despised it," he confesses, "havin' to go up to people and try to talk to them. Now they come up to me." When he is asked what he does on the hustings, Jeff replies: "I give speeches.I eat cookies. I cut ribbons...
Land Rush. These are but a few examples of the house-buying frenzy that is sweeping Southern California. Largely because of the region's improving economy and expanding population, the long pent-up demand for the limited available housing has resulted in scenes reminiscent of the Oklahoma land rush. The surge in sales is causing a boom in construction, attracting speculators, and hiking prices to levels that are unrealistically high, even for the normally inflated real estate market in Southern California. Says Frank Carr, executive vice president of W.R. Grace Properties, Inc., a land-developing arm of W.R. Grace...
...truth, for me it doesn't really matter what happens. I actually haven't been able to comprehend the title, the play-offs, or anything else associated with the Phillies' victory. That's a whole different mentality. You see, we've got this kid Lersch coming up from the Oklahoma '89ers, and Rick Bosetti--boy can he throw. Maybe we'll get 'em next year...
This fall's Loeb schedule looks promising: George Bernard Shaw's Candida coming up in late October, and Scapino, an adaptation of a play by Molier, and Oklahoma!, directed by Andy Cadiff, who has been trying for years to make the corny musical into an art form...