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...would be fine if that were all it was. I have no problem hanging out with geeks getting in touch with their inner desires, like the Microsofties who got body shots from silicone-enhanced exotic dancers at The Beach on Monday night. My problem is that Comdex has spread itself too wide and become too shallow to be of any real use. The products on display have usually either been seen a hundred times before or are showy prototypes - "vaporware" - that will never reach the market and are intended to drum up hype for their company...
...Fortune's cover, legendary for wooing clients, once successfully pitching Sears while taking apart a power drill (and putting it back together again without chipping a nail). Last spring when Powell, who'd gotten to know her on various corporate boards recruited her, she had retired to West Palm Beach, Florida, with her white toy poodle. Recently remarried to a New York art dealer and confirmed on Oct. 2, her salary may be a governmental $133,700 but she lives like royalty, buying one house in Georgetown and then another down the street she liked better. Glamorous compared to Jeanne...
...intelligence service had developed a program to recruit disaffected Americans who had reaffiliated to Germany. The expats were to be trained in sabotage and sent back to the U.S. Eight were selected for the June, 1942 mission that sent two small submarines to the U.S., one to Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida and one to Amagansett, Long Island. They surfaced, took small rubber craft to shore, and were in the process of burying their uniforms and some explosives when an unarmed Coast Guardsman drew near...
...editor of The New York Times Arts and Leisure section, moderated the panel, “Sprung from the Ruins.” Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Rev. Peter J. Gomes introduced the discussion with a recitation of Walt Whitman’s “On the Beach...
...late July 1961, President Kennedy, just back from the grim Vienna summit with Khrushchev, asked me to dinner in Palm Beach. After daiquiris and Frank Sinatra records on the patio, his three guests and I gathered around the table for fish-in-a-bag, a White House recipe. Between lusty bites, Kennedy told the story of Khrushchev's anger over West Berlin, the island of freedom in the Soviet empire's East Germany. "We have a bustling communist enclave just four blocks from the White House," I noted, meaning the Soviet embassy. Kennedy paused, fork between plate and mouth...