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...deal with Ted Kennedy. Deputy Campaign Manager Hamilton Jordan signed a contract to provide Kennedy with $500,000 raised at a series of galas that Carter and the Senator will attend. In return for this assistance in paying off his $1.7 million in campaign debts, Kennedy has pledged to barnstorm for the President...
...commercial airline pilots in the U.S. are women. In that select group, Claudia Jones, 35 (left), and Cathy Jones, 25, have still another distinction: they are stepmother and daughter. Florida-raised Claudia began as an entertainer (she plays 19 instruments and sings), then learned to fly so she could barnstorm with her Vegas act. Claudia started putting in time as a flight instructor, and during one stint Cathy turned up as a student. That led to Claudia's marrying Cathy's father, Hal Jones. Now Claudia co-pilots Boeing 727s for Continental Airlines, while Cathy, though a licensed...
Though Carter is unwilling to leave the White House to barnstorm the state 1976-style, he is much better organized in Iowa than he was four years ago. His campaign has about 30 full-time paid operators and some degree of organization in each of the 99 counties. His Des Moines headquarters, which was a mere storefront in 1976, now occupies an entire floor of the same building. A phone bank is constantly buzzing with calls to supporters...
Anita Bryant and her troops, meantime, are preparing to broaden their Save Our Children movement beyond Miami. Bryant is weighing the possibility of opening a Washington office for her crusade and may barnstorm the country to oppose gay rights ordinances...
When a couple of friends who owned a basketball team came to him in 1966 with the idea of starting a new league, he quickly dropped his tax cases to barnstorm the country looking for prospective owners. In the hunt, Davidson coupled his penchant for cold calculation with a latent but awesome talent for salesmanship. Davidson, 39, makes an impressive appearance with his year-round tan and robust physique (he plays tennis and basketball at least three times a week). His pin-stripe suits, moderate Republicanism and background as a Beta Theta Pi at U.C.L.A. tend to reassure businessmen...