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...Jackie and the kids were on the practice slope, two of them stood guard, calling out "No pictures" to anything in a parka that came too close. One night two agents accompanied Bobby, Jackie and the Smiths on a brief visit to two Aspen taverns. On another evening, the clan joined the McNamaras at the Golden Horn. On both occasions, the jukeboxes raised the only uproar. "Who's got time for the Kennedys?" demanded one Aspenite. "I've got invitations to six cocktail parties tonight, and I can't go to any of them because...
Serving ladies in the House dining rooms are not an intensely individualistic clan. Their mode of dress and regional accent is strikingly homogeneous. But general styles of personality, or "flavors," can be distinguished...
...Tattooed clan chiefs wearing lava-lava skirts still stroll across the main square of Pago Pago just as they did when young Willie Maugham stopped off and scribbled the notes for Rain...
...Manhattan clan, headed by a Guys and Dolls-type gypsy, Herschel Bernardi, needs to raise an $8,000 bridal fee to purchase a spitfiery West Side Story-type gypsy girl (Chita Rivera) for his son. The girl is so keen for the match that she stages a bajour (Romany for swindle) and cons the widow for the money. A subplot has the widow's daughter living in with the Bernard! bunch to research a Ph.D...
...being the largest single owner of Du Pont and one of the richest men in America, Copeland is also a chemist and a financial expert who believes in Andrew Carnegie's dictum: "Put all your eggs in one basket, and watch them." Fiercely loyal to the closely woven clan and its company, Copeland believes, in the best big-business tradition, that Du Pont has a duty to do a great deal more than make money for its 240,000 stockholders. As he sees it, the firm that his family founded needs to set the pace for others in opening...