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Oona and Charlie sleep in twin four-posters. He rises at 10 a.m., has his daily Turkish bath and, in winter, jogs around his property wearing three sweaters and an overcoat. He has taken up skiing, and he falls all over the slopes like a six-year-old, but he is trying hard to conquer the sport. In warm weather, he plays tennis and does calisthenics every day on the lawn. Sometimes he sips bourbon, which he once called "the only good thing America produces," but he never smokes and will not permit visitors to light up in his presence...
Wearing a fashionable black Chesterfield overcoat, the tall, polished Dobrynin stepped off the midday express from New York with his attractive brunette wife Irina Nikolaevna at his side. Russian embassy staffers showered him with roses, thrust out carnations. Dobrynin lost no time in dispensing his own roses. Smiling graciously and speaking in slightly accented English, he quoted Thomas Jefferson on the "remarkable similarity" between Americans and Russians, extended "the friendly greetings of my people." Then he climbed into a black Zil limousine and sped off to the Soviet embassy...
...clock, wearing a wool suit, a bluish tweed overcoat and a beanie hat, Mrs. Rockefeller walked through a rear entrance into the courthouse with her sons Rodman, 29, and Steven, 25. Mrs. Rockefeller showed some strain as she walked past the popping flashbulbs. Her sons left her for an anteroom, and she walked into the courtroom. It is a large chamber with azure walls and gilded frieze. Except for Judge Bowen, the two lawyers, and three court attendants, she was alone...
...palsied pensioner than a fire-breathing general, Delgado limped off to misadventure. He sailed across the Strait of Gibraltar-after losing two days because he missed one ferry-then drove to Seville to meet his resourceful Argentine traveling companion. Mrs. Arajaryr Campos, 27. In the lining of her overcoat was sewn one of Delgado's flashier uniforms-for use in the event that Salazar's 33-year regime were to crumble in the face of his visit...
Traditionally, each recipient later donates an overcoat to an undergraduate in the succeeding college generation. Thayer recipients also pass on to one another a piece of parchment from the coat that Eliot originally gave to the shivering student...