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...hoopla will be a façade. Even if Walter Mondale manages to smooth over his rifts with Jesse Jackson and the feisty women's movement, even if he somehow upsets Ronald Reagan in the fall, deep divisions will remain within the party. The Democrats are groping for a fresh identity and a modern agenda. They are badly split between old New Dealers, as embodied by Mondale, and a large and restless group of "new generation" Democrats, championed vocally if so far unsuccessfully by Gary Hart. The party is in the midst of a prolonged mid-life crisis...
...dimmed. The best colors? The yellow of a taxicab, the blue of the sky on Kennedy's Inauguration Day, the pink of a Provence carnation. Her hero is her husband of 46 years, whom she refers to almost solely in terms of his exquisite clothes-felt hats as smooth as satin, overcoats that Garbo loved. Helena Rubinstein is remembered for the beauty of her buttonholes, Clark Gable for the best eyelashes she ever saw. And if the tall stories about kings and playboys often ravel, the shrewdness and impersonal good humor of the storyteller are intact. Cole Porter...
...have been a bumpy week for Democratic hopefuls, what with squabbles over the party platform and delegate-selection rules, but for the opposition presidential candidate it was all smooth sailing. Ronald Reagan just breezed along, stroking an elephant here, downing a catfish there and most of all relishing his most recent in-house poll showing him outpacing Walter Mondale, at least for the shining moment, by a thumping 54% to 39%. Said a top aide: "There's no question that Reagan is on a high right...
From foreign central bankers to Citicorp mail clerks, everyone was willing to handicap the contest. At first, many Citicorp executives bet on the smooth-talking Angermueller, who was more popular than the sometimes abrasive Reed and the often arrogant Theobald. Then Theobald seemed to get ahead on the basis of Citicorp's profitable foreign lending operation, which was riding high until Latin American debt problems arose in 1982. Wriston refused to drop any hints about who was in the lead. In 1982 he promoted the three in tandem to the title of vice chairman. All earned precisely the same...
...details of two funds were surrounded by mystery for more than three years. It gradually became known that they had raised and spent roughly $1 million, mostly in money from private donors, to smooth the transition from the Carter to the Reagan Administration. But the General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, was refused access to the books. Leaks about who got how much from the funds appeared; White House aides reportedly quarreled among themselves about how much to disclose and when Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor who is looking into the financial affairs of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, asked...