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During her husband's term in the White House, Rosalynn Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...
...this city. I loved living here and being so close to the seat of power, being part of the political system." It is not hard to guess that the city is Washington, D.C., but the identity of the speaker might come as a surprise to those who thought of Rosalynn Carter, 56, as a down-home sort of woman who was never comfortable with the insider preening and cosseting that embroider life in the nation's capital. In town last week to see old friends and attend a signing party for her new book, First Lady from Plains (which...
...neglected to give one interesting statistic. The state of Washington produced half the American medalists: Phil Mahre, Steve Mahre, Rosalynn Sumners and Debbie Armstrong. It was also involved with a fifth, Bill Johnson, who went to skiing school in the state. Maybe Washington should have entered...
...Scott Hamilton, 25, a happy little dynamo who looks as though he fell off a charm bracelet. Yet it fitted even him. He won the gold medal, but with a wistful shrug said he always imagined it would be "more special." A miscalculation, evidently, involving flips and salchows. Rosalynn Sumners skated beautifully, perfectly in the view of one judge, and narrowly lost to the German Democratic Republic's Brooke Shields, Katarina Witt...
...that he kicked the rinkside barrier. American Ice Dancers Judy Blumberg and Michael Seibert likewise lashed out in frustration, though in words only, after seeing their hopes for a medal disappear at the whim of a single judge and her totally bewildering scores. Meanwhile, America's ice princess, Rosalynn Sumners, the reigning world champion, overplayed her penchant for femininity and had to settle for a silver medal. In pair skating, the East Germans and Soviets blasted away at each other with programs too difficult to perform without mistakes, and a blithe brother-and-sister act from the U.S. slipped...