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When she stepped onstage Monday afternoon for a women's political fund raiser, and the next morning at a women's caucus, she was received like a feminist superheroine, history incarnate. At the morning caucus session of 2,000 female delegates and alternates, she kept her remarks brief and understated, as she did in all of her joint appearances with Mondale. Yet, in five minutes the audience whooped and applauded ten times and chanted, "Gerry, Gerry, Gerry." Said she: "I need you. We all need each other." By remarkable coincidence, Ferraro's birthday...
...fields. But no one was able to determine accurately whether the deaths were all attributable to swine fever, or to hog cholera or some other epidemic disease. Many Haitians contend that only a few pigs were afflicted with the dread African swine fever. Says one poultry raiser: "The farmers saw no reason for the pigs to be killed...
...less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...
Predictably good was the curtain raiser, England's Royal Shakespeare Compa ny in a production of Much Ado About Nothing, which ran through last week...
...were the Presidential Transition Foundation, which spent $939,667, and the Presidential Transition Trust, which laid out $192,198. Those expenditures supplemented the $2 million that the Government made available to finance the transition. Donations for both funds were collected largely by Daniel J. Terra, a major Republican money raiser who is now President Reagan's Ambassador-at-Large for Cultural Affairs. Terra told prospective donors in one letter that the money would be used partly to pay expenses of transition workers that would not be reimbursable from the federal treasury but would be considered proper in private business...