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...Governor Hugh Carey, 61, that is, and his flame of recent weeks, Evangeline Gouletas, 44, the widowed Chicago condominium millionaire he met at the Reagan Inaugural. The romance has worked quite a change on the fast-living politician. Why, his silver-gray locks and eyebrows have gone a rakish shade of auburn. "This is budget season," says the dyed-in-the-wool Democrat. "That and the beginning of spring give me energy that flows to my hair roots." Even before they noticed the sapphire-and-diamond "friendship ring" on Gouletas' finger last week, reporters were asking if a wedding...
...easy man to judge; he sends out too many unexpected signals. Try as he may, he does not look like a diplomat. The stripes on his gray suit are a shade too bold, while his tassled loafers, the gold I.D. bracelet (A.M. HAIG) on his right wrist, his barrel chest and the piercing stare from his blue eyes all bespeak the general
...attention from her love story to some serious conflicts in the Street house. Valerian and Margaret do not share a bedroom. He spends most of his time in a greenhouse tending feeble plants that might flourish if left outside in the trade breezes. Ghostly pale, Margaret lies in the shade and believes that her son Michael will finally visit her. In the kitchen, Ondine, Sydney's wife, cooks Main Line specialties and fumes about the unreasonable demands of her boss's wife. Ondine also harbors a dark secret about...
Some of the President's aides were growing a shade cocky over the heady prospects of steamrolling the economic package through Congress. When Senators and Congressmen asked Reagan's aides how much of his program the President really insists on getting, they replied solemnly, "He has said he will settle for 97%." Noted one aide: "They don't even blink at us." Even among Democrats on Capitol Hill there is no willingness to oppose the Reagan drive broadly, since they agree with its aims, have no comprehensive alternatives to offer and fear that opposition would be political...
...this most seemly of chronicles begins, Powell, 28, is about to marry Violet Pakenham, 22. An opportunity, surely, for a passing brushfire of emotion, recollectec in tranquillity? Not at all. Whatever might be hot or sweet is buried in the cool shade of 13 pages devoted to Violet's family tree. Fervor, by Powell's standards is reserved for Siamese cats and the young couple's cook, a Mrs. Clara Warville, who in a passage as heartfelt as any in the book, is recalled as "an admirable exponent of the art at its simple English best...