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...worth going into him here, but most of his great work was done for The New Yorker, and it fits better into this collection than it does into Thurber anthologies. I like Price's angular bodies and Koren's furry ones; my roommate likes Booth's cats; and Hilton Kramer thinks Steinberg is the only decent one among them...
Although campaign staff for Mayor Kevin H. White had claimed victory hours earlier, Timilty, a 37-year-old Democrat, waited until shortly after 11 p.m. to admit his loss to supporters jammed into the Statler-Hilton's Bay State Room...
...Hilton, the traditional gateway for Presidents, Kings and heads of state. But all they got was a fleeting glimpse of Ford's motorcade zooming past on its way to the rear service entrance, normally used by maids and waiters. The small crowd clustered there saw Ford for perhaps five seconds. Reported TIME'S Midwest bureau chief Benjamin Cate: "He alighted from the presidential limousine, forced a smile across his face and waved sheepishly while security men swarmed around him. The wave seemed almost a gesture of embarrassment, as though Ford were saying to those watching that...
Half an hour later, Ford's motorcaravan arrived in suburban Skokie (pop. 66,200) and pulled up before the 13-story North Shore Hilton. Half of the city's 61-man police force joined the cordon of Secret Service agents protecting the hotel. To help out, a dozen men who had been fired from the force in a contract dispute last summer joined their former colleagues on guard. About 500 of the city's residents stood shivering in the night outside the hotel when Ford arrived, and he waved for about 30 seconds to acknowledge their cheers...
...leveled a gun at the President during the trip, but there were a number of sharp encounters along the way. During the Chicago visit, a policeman near the Hilton asked to look into the purse of Carmen T. Pulido, 37, and found a .25-cal. pistol. She was arrested for carrying a concealed weapon, although she protested that she needed the gun for self-protection on her job as the manager of a currency-exchange outlet. "I'm no Squeaky Fromme," the woman protested. "I'm a notary public and tax accountant...