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FRONT PAGE PEOPLE

By Rudy Maxa

The Gorgeous Blondes

Not all four women are

new to Washington, but in

1976 they caught the camera

eye of both hard news and

society news photographers:

v Helga Orfila, the

German-born model who

used to advertise bicycles in

Los Angeles, began taking

Spanish lessons to go with

her new role as wife of the

secretary general of the

Organization of American

States, Alejandro Orfila.

v She separated from her

husband, Representative

Barry Goldwater Jr., and in

the spring of 1977 Susan

Goldwater quit the big

ticket real estate business

with hopes for a career in

television. For noW' radio will

have to do: she has her own '

talk show in Columbus, Ohio.

v Nationwide publicity

followed word that Rita

Carpenter, wife of the

Representative John

Jenrette, intended to break

the mood of the political wife

who stays in the background;

she pinned her hopes on a

singing career, and 1978 is a

make-it-or-break-it year.

v "I don't think John had

ever taken out anyone over

26," Mary Ellen

Brademas told a Women's

Wear Daily reporter. John

Brademas, the Democratic

whip in Congress, not only

dated Mary Ellen, who is

nearly 40, but he also

married tier. Like Rita

Carpenter Jenrette, polities

is not the whole world to the

new Mrs. Brademas. She is a

third-year medical student.

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