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Even so, Granite State voters are traditionally suspect of "outlanders." When Romney accosted a woman in a Persian lamb coat in frosty Manchester (pop. 93,700), she peered at him sharply and asked: "Who are you?" "I'm the Governor of the state of Michigan," he replied. She walked away unimpressed. It will require all of George Romney's considerable campaigning skill to overcome that sort of skepticism-and much more vigor to pursue the presidency beyond New Hampshire...
Brooks Brothers, the New York clothiers, makes a nifty set of threads, but $50,000 does seem a bit stiff. Nevertheless, a North Carolina woman named Marion J. Smith is asking that much for an 1865 Brooks Brothers frock coat and suit-namely the one worn by Abraham Lincoln when he was assassinated. The coat came to Mrs. Smith via her grandfather, a White House doorkeeper who was given the clothes by Mary Todd Lincoln. Though the bidding is open to everyone, the National Park Service lusts for the frock coat for its Lincoln Museum in Washington's restored...
...newly vigorous G.O.P. dead ahead. He has allowed the Democratic National Committee's once smooth machinery to rust. Indeed, whereas Lincoln's Cabinet complained that he carried his files around in the sweatband of his stovepipe hat, Johnson tries to carry the whole Democratic Party in his inside coat pocket. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara will soon be leaving him, and a debilitating exodus of top officials could follow. The far-out National Conference for New Politics has threatened to assemble 1,000,000 pickets outside Chicago's International Amphitheater in August to disrupt the Democratic Convention though there is some...
...grim Gestapo type in boots and a belted leather coat began to lecture in German-accented English: "Businessmen, you have perhaps noticed that Hertz has been ticking along like a fine watch lately. This is no accident. This is the result of training and discipline." He pushed through a steel door that clanked shut, and conducted a tour of the concrete block: "There we take the men who service the cars and turn them into fanatics. And in this area, we are building a super troop of car attendants." The 60-second commercial, viewed during the Dean Martin show...
...striptease joints. When the crowd yelled "Bring on the girls!" he would single out a heckler and ask: "You, sir, are you married? You never will be with that roller-derby jacket. What's your name? You don't know, you idiot-well, look inside your coat!" Or if the guy had a date, he would look at her and sadly inquire, "Was anyone else hurt in the accident?" Though Rickles has been fired from half a dozen clubs and was once sued by a woman for ridiculing her hat as "suitable for a Halloween dance," he proudly...