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High among the time-honored privileges of campaign fund-raisers is the chance to bask in the reflected glory of a successful candidate. Even so, on the night of George McGovern's nomination in Miami Beach, his national finance chairman, Henry Kimelman, seemed to be doing much more than mere basking. With his arm wrapped around McGovern's wife Eleanor, Kimelman flashed enough winning smiles and V signs at the TV cameras to have been the candidate himself. Gary Grant, with whom the darkly handsome Kimelman has occasionally been compared, might call the scene one in which...
...prepared to exercise further economic leadership "at the proper time" but makes it clear that there can be "no progress" until the U.S. sets forth a more specific plan for reversing its balance of payments deficit. Meanwhile, Giscard-and most of his fellow citizens-seems content to bask in the first rays of what he calls "the enjoyable epoch...
...lines. (Isn't it incredible that mentioning morality should instantly consign one to the realms of the banal?) Political lines. So it looks as if old Henry, fresh from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Asians fighting for their right to self-determination, will come back here to bask in the glow of adoring undergraduates and (mostly) graduate students. What kind of people are these? What kind of person am I that I talk civilly to them? How can I have gone to dinner with the past head of the Government Department, sipped my wine and listened...
Evenings were my favorite time of day. One night after the village was asleep, the soldiers took me outside for exercise and let me bask in the cool evening air. Sitting on a chair they had provided, I watched as some of the Vietnamese taught the Khmers how to crawl quietly through the grass, dragging their rifles behind them. Then the soldiers invited me to show them how Americans crawl. I got down on all fours and promptly split the seat of my pants, and the evening solitude dissolved in laughter. But the humor was short-lived. In the southern...
...teach you how to live! We're going to get the toxins out of your system, burn off the fat and redistribute the muscle factor. It's gorgeous!" BUTT KICKING. First on your Personalized Toning-Up Program is a spin in the Roman pool. As you bask in the hot, healing waters, a gentleman technician offers cups of dietetic lemonade. Your poolmate, a balding man in his 50s, introduces himself. La Costa tones up such famous figures as Rod Steiger, Ambassador John Lodge, NBC President Julian Goodman. Gore Vidal, Kirk Douglas, Senator Jacob Javits, Sandy Koufax, President Gustavo...