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...intoxicated by the rarefied air, shuffle about the floor in Pucci gowns, Marimekko shifts and madras jackets. For those who do not mind the cold (a windy 50°), there is dancing outdoors in a setting of spotlighted pines and crags. Refreshed by a late theater supper of shrimp Creole or beef stroganoff, customers spin on until 1 a.m., when the gondolas take them on a quick, sobering ride back to earth...
...from Korea's last Emperor. In his years of exile, he had acquired an M.A. from Harvard, a Ph.D. from Princeton, an Austrian wife, and the respect of both his own people and many Americans. He had also learned the wisdom of the Korean proverb, "When whales fight, shrimp are eaten...
There were no cots in the cloakrooms, no pajama-clad Senators rubbing sleep from their eyes as quorum bells clanged in the middle of the night, no filibustering recitals of recipes for chicken gumbo and shrimp jambalaya. There was just a straightforward, rather lackluster debate that was cut off after a mere 24 days when the Senate invoked cloture. Next day, when President Johnson's voting-rights bill came to a final vote, the Senate approved it by a lopsided 77-to-19 margin and sent it to the House, where its passage is all but a foregone conclusion...
...water. Once Lyndon developed a craving for a cruise up the narrow, treacherous Llano River on a winter night so pitch-dark that Moursund stepped right off the end of the pier into hip-deep water. Yet A. W. took the wheel of the cruiser, while Lyndon unconcernedly ate shrimp in the cabin below. Said Johnson: "He'll get us there. I wouldn't trust anybody else...
...where sales are rated above profits, that's not business-that's bureaucracy." To help reach its profit goal, Du Pont is capable of counting its pennies very closely: a few years back, it even adopted a cost-squeezing suggestion to remove the lemon wedges from the shrimp cocktails served at the company-owned Hotel Du Pont. Saving: $200 a year...