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Every August the most fashionable of fashionable Parisians pack their race horses and head for a 1,000-year-old village on the Normandy coast, 120 miles away. In old Deauville (pop. 5,438) they unpack their purses at three luxury hotels, two race tracks, six nightclubs, a pair of golf courses, 24 tennis courts, a yacht basin, theater, music hall, polo field, clay-pigeon shoot and one of Europe's busiest and most sumptuous casinos. Says a French social commentator: "Deauville is to Paris what Pompeii was to Rome...
...moment she seemed half disposed to unpack then and there, and leave some of the excess baggage behind, but she finally took her son's advice. "I've packed enough stuff to last me a year," she sighed, as she paid...
...Mentally Retarded. Dr. Groesbeck saw his first case of rickets in 36 years as a licensed physician, so bad was the malnutrition. Expensive new medical and dental equipment was found crated in basements, where it had rusted for ten years or more -nobody was interested enough to unpack it, and anyhow, there was no technical staff...
There wasn't time that first night for Mamie to unpack or even to look around her new home. There wasn't even time for a family dinner. Mamie ate her dinner from a tray, alone in her bedroom. Three hours later she emerged, resplendent in her pink inaugural gown, ready to continue the fatiguing rounds. She exercised an immemorial wifely prerogative, held up the family's departure for the twin balls for 15 minutes while she completed her toilette. Finally, at 2 a.m.. after a grueling, 18-hour day, Mamie and Ike got into...
...incessantly. ("Tell her I'm out," he would say, "and will be back in an hour.") Around him swirled admirers, newspapermen, photographers, bullfighters and favor-seekers, helping themselves to the free Scotch and brandy, and filling the room with smoke and babble. His three personal servants bustled to unpack 15 leather bags, containing 17 suits and a tailcoat, a small treasure in jewelry, seven gold-embroidered bullfight costumes, and a batch of books which included Shakespeare (in Spanish) and Cervantes...