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Unusually subdued, U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan stood last week at the bar in the delegates' lounge at the United Nations building, sipping red Dubonnet on the rocks and glumly sidestepping questions. A few minutes earlier, he had canceled a press conference at which he had intended to announce that he was resigning because of criticism of his don't-tread-on-me style as ambassador. But in a series of frantic, last-minute telephone calls, high Administration officials had persuaded him to postpone his decision and talk over his grievances this week with President Gerald Ford...
...night he sips at a glass of Mateus rosé, a Portuguese substitute for red Dubonnet, which is suspected of a higher calorie count. But beyond that, he looks and in some ways acts as well as ever, maybe a little better. His hair is bleached, his skin tanned from weekend sun on his Pocantico Hills golf course with his two sons and Club Pro Chi Chi Rodriguez. A medical lab, after studying his charts and X rays, reported: "This man is 40 years...
...right hand to write, playing tennis with his left. He was lefthanded as a boy, but his father tied a string to his left wrist at the dinner table. When Nelson tried to eat southpaw, his father gave a yank. Rockefeller does not smoke and only occasionally has a Dubonnet on the rocks or some wine. There is no way of telling that he is a Rockefeller from his dress. His nondescript suits are invariably rumpled, his ties unmemorable...
...songs translated into English. I pictured Brel as a young Chevalier transforming charm into success and moving with case from a Left Bank garrett (like Gene Kelly's in An American in Paris) to a Citroen and townhouse in the snappy 16th Arrondissment. I imagined him a patsy for Dubonnet commercials...
After Bobby's death and again after Chappaquiddick, there was talk of his drinking heavily. Today, except at an occasional private party when he will have several Scotches, he drinks only a Dubonnet before lunch or a Cutty Sark Scotch or two before dinner. On the road he prefers a bottle of Heineken's beer. He smokes long, thin Filipino cigars and now, at 6 ft. 2 in. and 210 Ibs., is winning his constant battle against overweight...