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...such as Robert Woodruff, Coca-Cola's retired chairman, and Richard Rich of Rich's, the South's largest department store, who have long made no-nonsense civic enterprise an Atlanta tradition. "This is not a playboy's town and it's not a cocktail-at-lunch town," says Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., himself the former president of the South's largest office-supply firm. "This is a businessman's town...
...from there the audience follows them through their day and their night, as they separate, come together to attend a literary cocktail party in honor of Giovanni's new novel (The Sleepwalkers), and again separate as Lidia leaves early, unable to stomach the lionizing throng ("I'd love to know what goes on in a writer's mind"). She walks through the city, fails in an effort to stop a child from crying, passes unnoticed beneath Giovanni's window, breaks up a fist fight between two teen-age toughs, finally calls up to ask her husband to meet...
Taking his leave of the conference table, Paris-educated Chen slipped easily into the cocktail circuit, retired to the roof terrace of the Palais des Nations, where TIME'S Paris Correspondent Israel Shenker found him sipping champagne. A Red Chinese official talking to a U.S. newsman is such an unusual sight that diplomats and other reporters clustered around the pair. In the ensuing dialogue. Chen stuck to the familiar Peking line, but with a few-curves added...
...York I don't go in much for these little female lunches at the Colony and the Cote Basque," says Ceezee. "And I hate cocktail parties. We usually have people in or go out in the evening-to a dinner or a benefit or a ball. I'm not a great nightclubber, but of course I turn up at El Morocco from time to time. Last winter it was Le Club, I thought it was loads...
...like that," he says. He seldom makes a telephone call or negotiates a business deal personally ("I feel my people can haggle better than I can-so why waste my time?"). He shuns credit cards; he regards them as a temptation to spend company money. He never goes to cocktail parties or conventions; they cost time. Though he is worth $40 million, his only luxuries are homely middle-class comforts. His name is Eugene Ferkauf, he is 41 years old, and he is the founder, controlling stockholder and audacious boss of E. J. Korvette, Inc., the nation's most...