Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collided. "I thought you were second base," the runner insisted. Fat chance. Second base is one of the few positions that Midge Costanza, presidential assistant and after-hours shortstop, does not play. Of the seven senior staff members at the White House, she serves as Carter's sole woman, Northerner, liberal activist and ethnic (if "ethnic" is defined as one with strong ties to a family homeland). She is an all-purpose outsider on an otherwise all-Georgia team...
...Costanza cracked, "Well, now you all know what I do in the White House." Says a veteran Carter hand: "Midge puts a little fun in his day-and he needs it." Some feel that her joshing comes on a bit too strong. But, notes an associate, "a more serious woman would be too threatening to them." "Them" refers to the Georgia Mafia led by Hamilton Jordan and Powell. Midge insists that they do not close her out of the action: "The only place they don't invite me is to the men's room." She is more...
...want to keep the myth alive," Greta Garbo once said when asked about her reclusiveness. Garbo made her last film, Two-Faced Woman, in 1941 and has stayed out of the public eye ever since. But when Freelance Journalist Frederick Sands requested an interview for the German weekly Bunte Illustrierte, Garbo unexpectedly agreed. As they walked around Garbo's apartment in Klosters, Switzerland, the star, 71, admitted: "I'm restless everywhere and can't stay put. I would like to live differently somewhere, if only I knew where I could go." On daily walks, she says...
...Managerial Woman, Henning & Jardim...
...adherents are flushed with the rosy beauty of new faith. "We got involved in Sikhism so we could re-establish a direction in our lives based on real principles," a young Jewish woman at a Los Angeles ashram told TIME Correspondent James Wilde...