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...Drop's Day. During the week the White House announced that Ike would return Harry Truman's Independence, a DC-6, to routine VIP service. Ike will fly instead in the plush VIP Constellation No. 8610. The decision had an ironic twist. No. 8610 is nicknamed the Dew-Drop because-according to legend-the Air Force got it ready in 1948 for Tom Dewey, the G.O.P. candidate who never...
...while, life in the Krogh empire is delightfully plush. Anthony becomes Krogh's bodyguard, teaches his joyless boss how to relax, begins an affair on the side with an English lady tourist, and picks up extra change by funneling news about Krogh to a journalist. But when Anthony discovers that Krogh is swindling half the world, he rebels: he is not "unscrupulous enough to be successful." Suddenly dangerous, Anthony is casually destroyed by one of Krogh's assistants...
...Martinella. A phalanx of strapping ushers rushed in. Prohibited from laying hands on the honorable members, the thin line of frock-coated ushers compromised by kicking shins. They were swept aside as the factions closed, fists waving, drinking glasses hurtling, chair legs thudding on skulls. From his seventh-row plush seat, Red Chief Togliatti, carefully guarded by a Red deputy, watched with a connoisseur's interest. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, 71, in the front benches, prudently retired to safer ground...
...might be a bureau chief, cabinet undersecretary, or National Chairman of a political party, would come to Cambridge in mid-afternoon. After addressing a seminar for a couple of hours he would be guest of honor at a dinner. Later the discussion would resume in the plush Littauer lounge. Sometimes, it would be another four hours, the bigwig called time and was spirited away to the airport or train station. Since the guest was exclusively the property of Littauer, the rest of the University never even knew he was in town...
...been the maids, but the students they serve. The old timers, who remember the Gold Coast days, agree that students were richer then than now, and that their rooms showed it. They also think the present crop of students are sloppier now than in the days of plush carpets and chaises-lounges. In their daily trip through the private lives of students they have been able to observe these changes, but they have not colored their attitudes toward the frowzy youth in the pajamas they see each morning. He may be the poorest and sloppiest man in College...