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Although he stressed healing the town-gown split in the City's weal-thier sections, he played it down elsewhere. "I was caught in a bind," he explains. "I'm on record as dedicated to breaking down the resentment, but I want to get elected." For both politi- cal and ideological reasons he is unwilling to abandon CCA endorsement, yet friends say it hurt him significantly in the traditionally non-CCA areas in which he grew up or has strong ties. "No one was willing to tell me this before the election," he muses...
...seconds to put through the call. Then the press secretary mounted the stage of the hospital's movie theater to announce: "The operation was a complete success." By 11 a.m. the President was fully awake. Summoning Moyers, he asked: "Bill, how are you?" Moyers, swathed in a surgical gown, brought good news. His first words to the boss: "The stock market opened strong today, Mr. President...
Jackie gamely stuck with it until 12:30, then quietly slipped on her Jean Patou coat over her mint-green gown and left by the stage door, where a car waited to take her to the Ritz-Carlton. Next day she headed for the Kennedy compound at Cape Cod, where an Indian-summer day awaited...
...Andy and fellow onlookers toasted her in champagne from below. A week later they showed up at the exclusive dinner given by the old-guard Nine O'Clockers of New York, Andy dressed in his usual black, bespotted denim work pants and Edie in a black crepe evening gown with shoulder-length white gloves, topped with ostrich feathers...
...caviar and that of pop and pot. After several paper cups full of champagne and apple cider, the socialites unbuttoned their suit jackets, set their ties at half-mast, and mixed it up with the denizens of the underground on the dance floor. Said one girl in a Pucci gown: "This is a gas! I mean, this is what I call a real party...