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Robert Kennedy nearly got his clothes torn off in Indiana and California. Middle-aged matrons in the Mountain States and suburbs of the South swoon whenever Ronald Reagan mounts the platform. George Wallace's appearance at the sikeningly plush Sheraton Boston Hotel resembled an old-style political revival. Nelson Rockefeller pulled thousands of Wall St. bankers and their secretaries from the ticker tapes to an hour-long rally in tropical heat. And even cool Eugene McCarthy has had to start kissing babies...
...different stuffed animals running the gamut from A (alligators) to Z (zebras). Visiting toyshops and department stores in the U.S. last week, Steiff was taking orders for everything from a thumb-sized ladybug made of clipped wool (60?) to an 8½-ft.-tall giraffe covered in mohair plush ($500). The company's 2,100 workers also turn out life-sized gorillas, kangaroos and buffaloes. Total production amounts to 3,500,000 individual animals a year, and all are handmade...
...March faded into April, the Council screened applicants in the plush private rooms of a restaurant near Porter Square. The mid-April deadline for appointment of a new manager came and went. Mahoney, serving as the chairman of the search, assured the public that all was going well. The Council just needed more time to finish screening all the applicants, he said...
...poems, slipped in to compliment the critical articles, are partly responsible for Bogus' high quality. "California Plush" by graduate student Frank Bidart just misses being one of those six-page identity crisis -California -Cambridge poems; but Bidart's sincere, practically apologetic awkwardness saves it from banality. John L'Heureux seems a more accomplished poet. His "Three Awful Picnics" manipulates a playfully surreal death (of a man whose "head split open like a rotten cantaloupe and seven birds flew out") through three discordant, animated perspectives...
...COLUMNIST, in one of those flip phrases that brand decades, called this "a woman's era." The tag seemed particularly apt from the floor of the Grand Ballroom in New York's ultra-plush Waldorf Astoria last Monday, April 1, where the National Council of Women of the United States lunched 650 women at 25 dollars a plate to commemorate its eightieth anniversary...