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...election day in the Bahamas, and the procession of straw-hatted dancers snaked through the back streets of Nassau, holding hands and twirling to drums and blaring horns mounted on trucks. To wildly different tunes, they all sang the same campaign lyrics: "All the way! All the way!" The same day, Premier Lynden O. Pindling, 38, strolled into a new suburban school that his government had built on neighboring Andros Island, and cast his vote. "I think a win is sure," he said as he popped into his car. Then he popped back out again and, in mock alarm, asked...
Kennedy, of course, has several powerful friends at the local level. Nassau County Chairman Jack English sways voters living in a densely-populated Long Island suburb of New York City, and Joseph E. Crangle wields the same kind of power over Erie County (including Buffalo). Although they have not officially supported Kennedy, they do not hide their feelings. A strong county chairman has unmatched influence because he--not a United States Senator or Governor--directly controls the lower-level patronage and favor-dispensation which remain the crux of American politics even when the nation...
...Stowe, Vt, for skiing; round-trip in the club's DC-7B cost $37 apiece, compared with a minimum of $80 for the same flight on a commercial airline. Over the same weekend and at similar savings, Denver's Ports of Call ferried 68 members to Nassau; Cincinnati's Travel A-Go-Go and Manhattan's Society of Sky Roamers delivered 90 members each to Miami for the Super Bowl; World Samplers of Dallas lifted 51 skiers to Aspen, Colo.; and Indianapolis' Voyager 1,000 took 70 members to Freeport, Grand Bahamas. Club planes, like...
...were paid by the Mary Carter Paint Co. (which owns the new Paradise Island Hotel, along with A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who retains 25%), the guests knew that le beau Serge would program their kind of weekend in the sun. He was there from the instant they entered Nassau customs, smoothing the way and shepherding them into the black and white Cadillac limousines. For entertainment, he arranged an "informal" dinner the first night, which all but a handful of ladies knew meant come in a gown, followed the next night by a black-tie ball (Meyer Davis music...
Back from Nassau, Obolensky is now off to Paris and Rome to arrange parties for Alexander's president, Alexander Farkas; then he must fly down to Madrid to help an old pal, Angier Biddle Duke, the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, give a benefit ball for the Cancer Society. Wherever he goes, there will be entirely too many Beautiful People to round up to leave Serge much time for play. Unless what he does for a living is play enough...