Word: john
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...office as well. "The first few days he was in the office we had people approaching us saying that a picture of him at his desk would be worth $10,000," says Michael Cherkasky, then the chief of the investigative-units division. "You would be in the elevator with John and have police officers ask him for his autograph." John worked on small cases at first--embezzlement, low-level corruption--before moving on: organized crime and racketeering, and eventually the street-crime trial division. He was an assiduous worker. "He was different, obviously--he lived in a different world that...
...Xenon disco, where he hung out in the late '70s: first, use personal radar to sense the approach of a stranger, then move subtly until your back is turned to the person--a way of saying "Please, leave me alone, please." But if someone breached the barrier anyway, John would then be unfailingly polite, using the Kennedy charm until he could break free. Just like Jackie...
...what I signed up for." And he said he understood why people were interested in him--he was getting pretty interested too. "Probably the present is more compelling than the past," he told Gross. "The beginning of life is just preparation." The preparation, he implied, was finally over. John Kennedy was all ready for the main act to begin...
...With reporting by John Cloud and Romesh Ratnesar/New York and James Carney/Washington
...crutches because he'd recently broken or sprained his ankle. And as we all walked away, a friend of his said to me, "Maurice worries about him flying that plane." Maurice Templesman, Jackie Onassis' longtime friend. "He's afraid John is too..." She couldn't think of the word, but it was something like distracted, scattered...