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...been requested by my Government to record the fact that, were it possible to change our vote, we should like to change it from a veto, a no, that is, to an abstention." Her switch was greeted with incredulity-Parsons was flabbergasted. "Breathtaking, absolutely breathtaking," he was heard to mutter as he left the session shaking his head...
...stifled a sob. Lou looked up from a bottle of Top o' the Heather long enough to mutter, "There goes Mary Waterworks again." Sue Ann nibbled on a quiche...
RALPH LAUREN. Tom Wolfe once derided Lauren's "Savile Pseud suits," and backpacking types have been known to mutter about the imposed funk of his Western look. But no one has so codified American traditionalism, or mined it quite so profitably, as Ralph Lauren. His Polo (for men) and Ralph Lauren (for women) labels, with their assorted subsidiaries, sidelines and licenses, pulled in more than $700 million last year. His logo of a mallet-wielding polo player has galloped across everything from ties to dresses, saddle blankets to note pads, and is well on the way to giving...
...aides to the other candidates who have put very little effort into the convention also play down the event. "Conventions normally endorse conservatives," says Michael Mutter Card's deputy campaign director. His candidate hardly fits that description. The 34 year old representative has a reputation at a "coalition builder." with support ranging from Francis W. Hatch Jr., the liberal Republican nominee in 1978 to conservative economist William Simon...
...attempt to be pleasant. They seem overjoyed when an occasional passer-by stops to chat as they stand next to their coal-fired braziers warming themselves against the freezing temperatures of one of Poland's coldest and snowiest Decembers in years. But they are easily angered when people mutter that "all the coal goes to the army...