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Hart's return hurts all the charter members of the old Democratic six-pack in differing ways. The second-tier candidates (Gephardt, Gore and Babbitt) can ill afford to be overshadowed in the crucial weeks before Iowa and New Hampshire. Gore is particularly vulnerable since, having all but abandoned Iowa, he needs a respectable showing in New Hampshire to position himself for the Super Tuesday Southern primaries. Compared with Hart, the bow-tied Simon looks like the model of a conventional politician. "Hart will take away the fascination with Simon as the new and different candidate," predicts Democratic Media Consultant...
...beginning, there was stodginess. When the 33 charter members of the National Geographic Society first met on Jan. 13, 1888, at Washington's musty Cosmos Club, their mission was to spur the "increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge." The hidebound organization founded by these scientists, bankers, lawyers and educators allowed "gifts to natives" as legitimate expenses; it waited until 1964 before permitting men and women to eat together in its main cafeteria. Still, the society's flagship, the yellow- bordered National Geographic magazine, which is now distributed in 167 countries, eventually came to rival Mom and apple...
Maria, a bed-wise South Carolina belle and wife of an aging Jewish businessman who has made a fortune selling charter flights to Mecca-bound Arabs, discourages Sherman from reporting the incident to the police. Unfortunately, the mother of the badly injured boy is a friend of the Rev. Reginald Bacon's, whose specialty is political pressure and misappropriating social-service funds for his private use, an activity he justifies as "steam control." Bacon is shrewd, cunning, outrageous and, like the other shrewd, cunning, outrageous characters in Bonfire, not necessarily bigger than life...
...Conservative is hardly the term, though, for the Rockingham Club. Brideshead Relocated perhaps. Established in 1981 by then-freshman Lord Nicholas Wentworth Hervey, as the charter says, `to transfer the finest of British traditions to a safe have...,' the Rockingham Club soon acquired a reputation as an absolutely exclusive reserve for the monied or titled--preferably both--young, male Eurocrats...
...offset maintenance costs further, many owners charter out their boats. Missy Harvey, managing director of Yacht Charters Unlimited in Rowayton, Conn., says, "Nothing does more for the ego than to be aboard the biggest, most beautiful yacht as it pulls into the harbor." Rates run $49,000 a week for Parts V, $30,000 for the Atlantique (which has been chartered by, among others, Sophia Loren, former Secretary of the Treasury William Simon and FORTUNE 500 executives) and $29,000 for Never Say Never. The charter party must also pay for fuel ($50 to $75 an hour), food, dockage...