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Powell is indeed sprightly for his age. Slim (6 ft., 155 lbs.) and well-conditioned (smoking only an occasional cigarette and preferring a glass of milk to a cocktail), Powell is an avid hunter of duck and quail and still likes to join his wife Josephine in an energetic game of tennis. Says he: "I used to play golf, but I married a tennis player." At work he is tireless, appearing at his desk around 8 o'clock every morning, including Saturdays and Sundays. Longevity runs in the family: his widowed father remarried seven years ago and is still flourishing...
Cracks are gradually appearing in many of the petty forms of segregation with which apartheid has been buttressed. In Durban, the city council recently threw a multiracial cocktail party. In Johannesburg, a few adventurous whites have begun to take black friends to restaurants and bars; they are often stared at, but invariably served. Last week South Africa's 8,000-strong Chinese community won the right, in a test case, to live in white areas "where this is permitted by the community." The prime reason for the change is economic. South Africa is rapidly industrializing, with more skilled jobs...
...pieces were mostly one-of-a-kind and also expensive. Now, mass production is solving the cost problem. It has resulted in plastic Parsons tables that sell for only one-third the price of the traditional wooden variety. It has also enabled New York City Designer Neal Small, whose cocktail tables of clear or smoked Plexiglas retailed for $600 each, to produce a slightly smaller table of the same material that sells for only $75. Several major furniture stores report that, largely because of the lower prices, plastics sales have doubled over the past year...
Connally's closest companions in Washington are Democrats. High among them is Robert Strauss, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, to which Connally still contributes $100 a month. Connally practically never drinks, avoids the Washington cocktail circuit, and accepts only a few of the more than 1,000 social invitations that he receives in an average week. Several other Cabinet members turn down invitations to parties that they know Connally will attend; they recognize that he will have center stage, and they do not want to be outshone...
...California League of Cities that had been scheduled well before his change of registration. The remainder of his agenda was tacked on specifically to aid the presidential prospecting and give the mayor his first broad exposure as a serious national candidate. Every minute was crammed with lunches and cocktail parties, TV talk shows and press conferences, meetings for special-interest groups. Hours were spent on the telephone and in private face-to-face sessions with important state and local party leaders. It was well-orchestrated politics, and the Lindsay camp was pleased with the results...