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...party's primary. A Viet Nam veteran who won a Congressional Medal of Honor, Kerrey is an imposing speaker, but some of his causes-a gay rights ordinance, for instance-may be too permissive for his generally conservative state. Kerrey, whose campaign ads stress his success as a builder and manager of restaurants and fitness centers, says he is confident of beating Thone "because he is a Republican in tough economic times...
...feet away, the sound of the thud was enough. Teran was dead. But the reflex thought was the irony of betrayal, not the horror of racing. Who would think to look both ways before stepping out into the alltime one-way street? George Bignotti, the famed engine builder, picked up Armando Teran's shoes. After the rest of the debris was picked up, the race resumed...
...aides to the other candidates who have put very little effort into the convention also play down the event. "Conventions normally endorse conservatives," says Michael Mutter Card's deputy campaign director. His candidate hardly fits that description. The 34 year old representative has a reputation at a "coalition builder." with support ranging from Francis W. Hatch Jr., the liberal Republican nominee in 1978 to conservative economist William Simon...
...actress is renovating is an architectural celebration of her swelling condition. The edifice is filled with French-provincial antiques. Soon it will be enhanced by a crib that replicates in loving detail Smith's own antique bed, complete with details like hand-painted flowers and gold leaf. The master builder is sedately curled up on a plush flower-print couch in an upstairs parlor. Now seven months pregnant, she radiates a warmth well beyond her Charlie's Angel image. Her skin is flawless, her eyes full of the clear California light and her manner exasperatingly placid. She and third husband...
Hopkins too was a master builder. The WPA created New York's La Guardia Airport, for example, and restored the St. Louis riverfront. But the most remarkable aspect of the WPA was its willingness to put people to work at their own trades (average wage: $50 to $60 a month) and to try anything. The WPA excavated Indian burial grounds in New Mexico, translated and indexed French and Spanish records in New Orleans, operated the bankrupt city of Key West, Fla. Unemployed writers like Conrad Aiken and John Cheever were put to work creating the American Guide series. Artists...