Word: woman
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...Manhattan congressional district, no money, no powerful political patrons, no neighborhood organization, no personal pizazz. He did have a small cadre of zealous supporters, the most prominent of whom was Bess Myerson, Miss America of 1945, the city's former consumer affairs commissioner and now a savvy political woman about town. In addition, Koch had a strategy. A self-proclaimed "liberal with sanity," he would adjust to the harsh new realities of life in the city by emphasizing management reform and by taking a tough line on fighting crime-including advocating capital punishment. He also became incumbent Mayor...
Israel's dependence on the U.S. has grown to staggering-and probably unhealthy-proportions. American aid now amounts to nearly $2 billion annually-or $600 for every man, woman and child in the country. The aid total constitutes 16% of Israel's national budget, and Premier Menachem Begin's hawkish government is requesting $2.3 billion for fiscal 1979. The money is divided almost equally between economic and military aid, and half of the economic portion ($525 million) is a direct grant. The rest is in long-term loans at nominal (2% to 3%) interest rates...
Nancy Shiffrin, 33, a California writer, always had trouble finishing books and articles. But unlike most authors bedeviled by blocks, she now knows where her troubles began: in the 17th century. During a session with Morris Netherton, a Los Angeles therapist, she had a vision of herself as a woman on trial in America in 1677 for heresy and trying to hide an incriminating diary from her inquisitors. Three hundred years later she was still "hiding the book." But no more. After Netherton's therapy, she says: "I seem to have very little problem finishing up things...
Most of the spectators aboard Provincetown seem to be masochists who laid out $100 for the whole series. On my right a pretty, middle-aged woman holding a small Australian flag confides that she comes from Virginia and watched the 1974 races from this very spot. "I've spent five days on this boat this time," she adds. "I feel as if I'd crossed the Atlantic in her." On my left is a Canadian. There is a heavy scattering of Australians...
After turning out several fat but never fatuous biographies of famous Britons (Mary Queen of Scots, Oliver Cromwell) Woman-About-England Lady Antonia Fraser has focused on the topic dearest to her heart: love. The former wife of Conservative M.P. Hugh Fraser-and the current companion of Playwright Harold Pinter-says she loves nothing more than to give and receive billets-doux. To kindle ardor in the souls of her readers, Antonia, 44, has compiled Love Letters (Knopf; $8.95), a tender anthology of 135 amorous notes dashed off through the centuries by lovers of distinction. Sample sweet nothings...