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...French press hailed the summit as the largest gathering of political notables since the 1919 peace conference that produced the Treaty of Versailles; but the Champs-Elysées remained bannerless and unfestive beneath a brilliant autumn sky. As delegates began to arrive at the spruced-up Hotel Majestic, from which the Viet Nam peace negotiators had been temporarily evicted, 1,500 uniformed policemen lined the nearby streets; plainclothesmen huddled in elegant doorways looking for all the world like pimps for the fun girls of Montmartre...
...preconvention banquets or band concerts. Dewey's No. 1 feminine supporter, tall, grey Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, occupied inconspicuous basement quarters next to the Blackstone Hotel men's washroom. And the Dewey Triumvirate-Jaeckle, Sprague and Brownell-held court in businesslike fashion in a plain and bannerless 25th-floor suite, until Dewey's nomination was cinched...
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