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This transformation was wrought by Tim Kraft, the Hoosier with a Pancho Villa mustache who two months ago became the President's chief coordinator on political liaison and patronage. Kraft's job is to improve Carter's relations with Demo cratic Party officials and contributors, to help get the President's programs through Congress and to help get him re-elected in 1980. Although Kraft is one of the Pres ident's top staffers, he has re mained almost invisible. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports on Kraft at work...
...world's consummate amateur, George Plimpton, has called signals for the Detroit Lions, played tennis with Pancho Gonzales, boxed with Archie Moore and pitched to Willie Mays-all in the name of journalistic curiosity and publishable profit. "Ernest Hemingway once said that my daydreams were the dark side of the moon of Walter Mitty," says Plimpton, 50. "I agree. It's nightmarish, these sports. They are painful, not joyful." Plimpton's latest joyless endeavor is race-car driving. He is revving up a book about the track and plans to get the feel...
...sweet spot 3½times that of normal racquets. Says Slote: "I hit more shots solidly. I'm very satisfied with it. Besides, the big thing is confidence. You do better with a racquet you have confidence in." Last week, after trying a friend's new Pancho Segura "SweetSpot"−notable for its wider spacing between strings near the rim than at the center. Manhattan Housewife Flip Breckenfeld offered to buy it on the spot. Said she: "I've never hit the ball so well...
...Ortegas are lucky indeed compared with Pancho, for he belongs to the largest group of immigrants?those whose illegal entry was cut short by U.S. officialdom. While accepting some 400,000 legal immigrants every year, the U.S. seizes and deports about 800,000 illegal immigrants, almost 90% of them Mexican. Yet the wetbacks keep returning, for there is no other border in the world that divides such great disparities in wealth...
...Look at us, look at what we have!" cries Pancho, 28, waving his arms as he speaks. One hand slams against the low-hung tar-paper roof of the dirt-floor shack he rents on the edge of a gravel pit in the hills above Mexico City. Sometimes he gets a day's work in the gravel pit for $6.40, but it is not regular work. His wife, Manuela, earns $45 a month as a maid. Their six-month-old son lies sleeping on the family...