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...outline of Carter's strategy for farm and rural voters. Attached was a cover note from Reagan Campaign Aide Max Hugel, telling Meese that Campaign Chairman William Casey, now CIA director, wanted his thoughts on how to "counteract this effort." Another memo, written by Republican Consultant Thelma Duggin, concerned Carter's plans to win the black vote. At the top, Campaign Aide William Timmons had scribbled, "Ed Meese-Ideas how to counter...
...Kentucky that women have had the most influential impact on state politics. Several years ago, whenever former Gov. Julian Carroll ventured out of the state, Lt. Gov. Thelma Stovall used the opportunity to exercise her rights as the acting governor, often to contrary purposes of the governor. In one instance, she vetoed the Kentucky legislature's recession of its ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment--an issue whose legality had to be decided in the courts. This year's gubernatorial election involves the current Democratic Lt. Gov. Martha Layne Collins; Jim Bunning, a Republican state legislator and former baseball pitcher...
...Thelma Metz recalled her son yesterday as someone who "was always giving himself challenges," from personal science projects to award-winning research, papers throughout his elementary and secondary school careers...
...mutual misunderstanding. The second, to Columnist Mark Feldman, is even more calamitous. As Rachel acknowledges, "The man is capable of having sex with a Venetian blind." Even so, she is astonished when, swollen with her second pregnancy, she learns that Mark has been sleeping with Washington Hostess Thelma Rice. "The most unfair thing about this whole business," she begins, "is that I can't even date." Later the saline level rises. When Mark contritely bursts into tears, Rachel concludes, "It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings...
Throughout, Ephron refuses to allow a note of self-pity; even her title is derisive. Humiliations are always relieved by pratfalls: Mark has been spending time on the psychiatrist's couch-unfortunately, Thelma is on it with him. Rachel's mother breathes her last, and when a nurse covers her with a sheet the old lady sits up, sings "Ta da!", checks out of the hospital and files for divorce...