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Thus, in addition to the debacle at the Bernsteins', Radical Chic brought on the party that Assemblyman Andrew Stein gave for a few striking Mexican-American grape workers on his father's estate in Southampton. The select "all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes. Capucci scarves. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody's hair. People were standing there with their hands pressed against their heads as if the place had been struck by a brain-piercing ray from the Purple Dimension." And in Wolfe's view...
Died. Neil MacNeil, 78, author and assistant night managing editor of the New York Times from 1930 to 1951; of uremic poisoning; in Southampton, N.Y. MacNeil was one of the paper's key executives during his 21 years on the night news desk, where he determined what news was fit to print and how prominently. Among his books were An American Peace, which foreshadowed the Marshall Plan, and Without Fear or Favor, a classic study of big-city journalism. After retiring from the Times in 1951, he became co-author of The Hoover Report...
...hours, the idolaters of rock had been staked out in choice positions on the grass or aboard knobby limbs of strategically located trees in the arena. They were young. They were more than 100,000 strong. They had come to the Isle of Wight off the English shore at Southampton to witness the first full-fledged public appearance by Singer-Composer-Poet Bob Dylan since he broke his neck in a motorcycle accident in 1966. In the cool evening air, as evident as the sweet odor of marijuana, hung an almost palpable yearning for some sort of transcendent experience...
...mouth, from the right mouths, was enough. "My customers are my public relations," he says. "I don't call them. They call me." It might be Manhattan Socialite Mrs. Joseph A. Meehan, who once dashed in, Adolfo remembers, needing "something amusing to wear to a Mideastern party in Southampton. We put our heads together and came up with harem pants." Or Philadelphia grande dame Mrs. T. Charlton Henry, in search of something to jog in. Adolfo produced a one-piece, black knit jump suit...
...attract free-spending American tourists for the transatlantic run in the warm seasons and Caribbean cruises in the winter. At least, that was the dream of the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. when it ordered the $71 million, 66,000-ton liner in 1964. Last week, as she limped into Southampton after her shakedown voyage to the Canary Islands, the Queen, her company and its dream were all badly shaken...