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Clark and his wife Joan enjoy Washington's social whirl, but often prefer evenings of classical music, especially Mozart, at the Kennedy Center. They live in a small apartment in Foggy Bottom that Bill Clark finds confining because there is no open air for his beloved barbecue grill. The apartment is modestly furnished, dominated by a contemporary wall tapestry of St. Francis of Assisi and pictures of their five children, ages 20 to 27. The couple are devout Roman Catholics who attend church regularly and prefer Latin Mass...
...going to have to take Jill too." At 46, Jill Ruckelshaus is not a typical political wife. She holds a master's degree in education from Harvard. She prefers backyard basketball to black-tie dinners, and a quiet family life in a Seattle suburb to the social whirl of Washington, D.C. A decade ago, her vocal support of women's rights earned her the nickname "the Gloria Steinem of the Republican Party...
Following a monthlong campaign whirl that ended with the thumping re-election of Margaret Thatcher, Britons could be forgiven last week for dearly wishing a respite from political news. It was not to be. Not only did the Prime Minister continue to tidy up her Cabinet, but a pair of opposition leaders, Laborite Michael Foot, 69, and the Social Democrat Roy Jenkins, 62, decided to call it quits. As members of the Liberal Party began grumbling about their alliance with the Social Democratic Party (S.D.P.), their popular chief, David Steel, hinted he might also bow out before the next election...
...wait. L.A. is aging. "Streets are breaking up. Water mains are breaking up. Bridges are crumbling," says Harvey Perloff, dean of U.C.L.A.'s school of architecture and urban planning. "The day of reckoning is going to happen so fast that it's going to make people's heads whirl." L.A. is a product of explosive growth, but now the practical limits to growth are in sight. The local debate over taxes (about to go up to cover nearly $300 million in city and county budget deficits), potholes and police layoffs sounds a lot like the sober municipal agendas...
...beaten in the Democratic primary. By 1962 he was earning more than $150,000 a year, representing mainly corporate clients. But when a new Miami congressional district was created that year, he jumped back into the political swim. He missed politics, and Mildred missed the capital's social whirl. Says Brother Joe, 73, about Claude's law practice: "He was very successful. But he was miserable, just plain miserable...