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...tall, with a mop of dark brown hair just beginning to gray at the temples, caterpillar-thick eyebrows and an aggressive Grecian nose tempered by a soft, almost shy smile. But in the Democratic presidential race Dukakis is as hot as a Friday-night traffic jam heading for Cape Cod. Ever since he unveiled his long-shot candidacy in March, Dukakis has been running like a modern-day Hermes in wing- tip shoes. He inherited most of Gary Hart's Iowa organization, raised a record $4.2 million in three months, and was judged by the keepers of the conventional wisdom...
Across the continent in Hyannis, Mass., Denny's Restaurant closed before the start of what should have been its peak season. It needed at least 70 employees to serve the summer crowds flocking to Cape Cod, but was able to hire only 13. A nearby Stop & Shop Supermarket found six cashiers only by recruiting in New Bedford, Mass., 40 miles away. The store will send a van to pick up the six every morning and drive them back at night, and the company will pay the employees time and a half for their two hours of daily travel...
Strange women were spotted being escorted upstairs in the White House in the summer, when J.F.K.'s family was on Cape Cod. The President appeared unannounced at about 12:30 a.m. in a hotel near the White House, with Secret Service agents discreetly clearing his way. One insider claimed that Kennedy reinjured his weakened back during a bedroom tussle at a party in Bing Crosby's Palm Springs, Calif., house, which the President was using in September 1963, thus forcing him to return to a rigid back brace. That brace held him erect in his limousine two months later...
Similarly, New Englanders who cherish the lingeringly greasy Cape Cod chips, old-fashioned and hand cooked in Hyannis, will find no clue on the package that the company now belongs to Anheuser-Busch. Even Pringle's, the faux chips formed of dehydrated potatoes, now comes in a variety of flavors designed to add character. That goal has not quite been realized, although sales have risen 16% a year since...
...first step Harvard should take is to sell name rights to dining hall delicacies. Food would then be referred to with its appropriate benefactor, such as the "Widener Beef Stew," "Weld Cod Scallops," or "Loeb Pu Pu platter." The dish owners might then take a special interest in the dish that bares their name, and offer funds for necessary improvements like even finer fine herbs on the chicken, or less congealed grease over the broccoli-cheese pasta...