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Next I went to see Muhammad Ali in his West Hollywood mansion with the wide manicured lawns and the tall white flagpole. He was always worth a story. Perhaps he would tell me the one about his Olympic gold medal, how he had taken it from his neck after being refused service in a Louisville restaurant for being black and had thrown it with its bright ribbon twirling off a bridge into the Ohio River...
...time to be sleeping. He gets up early, as he always has. Up, up to shower, to shave, to reach for a fresh shirt and a necktie, always a necktie. Then he pads down the stairs of his 15-room, $1 million stone-and-red-wood mansion to make his own breakfast: toast and coffee. His housekeeper is not awake yet, but the Secret Service men are, ready to accompany him on his two-mile walk around Saddle River, a wealthy enclave in northeastern New Jersey. There will be guards near Nixon for the rest of his life...
...Cleveland, where the candidates addressed the National Urban League conference, the mostly black audience offered attentive applause. But in Jackson, a throng of 4,000 waited in a drizzly rain for the pair and, when Mondale and Ferraro appeared on the steps of the antebellum Governor's mansion, cries of "Gerry! Gerry!" filled the air. "Do I have to worry about the South?" she asked. The answer roared back...
...week, no matter what the delegate total. But Hart seems bent on self-destruction himself. In a classic campaign boner, he exposed his sarcastic side at a fund raiser in Los Angeles. The "bad news," he told a well-heeled audience standing on the lawn of a Bel Air mansion, is that he has to campaign apart from his wife Lee. "The good news for her is that she campaigns in California while I campaign in New Jersey." When Mrs. Hart interjected, "I got to hold a koala bear," Hart sniggered, "I won't tell you what...
...people. He is a multimillionaire grandson of one of the founding brothers of the Johnson & Johnson health products firm. He lives in distinctly unbohemian comfort. With his wife and two children he will next year move behind the kidnaper-proof steel-lined walls of a new Princeton, N.J., mansion. As a young man he tried a stint as a Johnson & Johnson executive, but it did not work out. "I was fired," he says...