Word: manhattan
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Hubert Humphrey, a man whose future plans have a lot of people guessing, walked jauntily into Manhattan's 21 Club one night last week and had a hard time making his way toward a table. People stopped him along the way, shaking his hand, wishing him well. He was the center of attention and, as always, it pleased him. When he finally sat down, his host, Publisher Jerry Finkelstein, an influential local Democrat, leaned over and commented on this impromptu reception, telling Humphrey that he is by far the most popular Democrat in the state. "I made one mistake...
More than any other presidential candidate, Mo Udall has-and retains -a sense of humor. At a hey-look-him-over party for liberals at Arthur Schlesinger's Manhattan town house, Udall tried to reassure skeptics on his switch from describing himself as a liberal to the more cautious "progressive." Said Udall: "It's like the law professor who asked a student, 'What's the difference between fornication and adultery?' The student replied, 'Well, I've tried them both, and I can't tell the difference.' " In Wisconsin, when asked...
...this flight, the candidate, wrapped in a tan blanket, sleeps through flashbulbs as photographers intrude. The day had been rough. He had made appearances in ten different locations in New York, some of them rousing successes, others total flops. He had started out at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station at 8 a.m., accosting commuters single-mindedly on their way to work. He had courted Jewish voters, though he knew their hearts were with Scoop Jackson; he had been cheered by students, who he knew were his own. Twice he had been attacked by radicals shouting "Fascist!" His motorcade had suffered...
...Manhattan Psychoanalyst Natalie Shainess fears the new acceptability of pornography has convinced many of her young male patients that their perverse compulsions are not really problems at all. Result: they do nothing to deal with their compulsions. Claims Shainess: "That is happening everywhere today." Anthropologist Edgar Gregersen makes a similar point about sadomasochists: "A great many people with S-M tendencies now conceptualize themselves as S-M people. This has a very great consequence. They are not so willing to change...
Divorced. Barbara Walters, 44, co-host of NBC's Today show and Not for Women Only; and Broadway Producer Lee Guber, 54, partner in one of the nation's largest chains of musical theaters; after 13 years of marriage, one adopted daughter; in Manhattan...