Word: vicuna
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...handsome, well-spoken Richardson is, at 53, an ascending force in Washington. Born into a Boston Brahmin family and educated at Harvard (LL.B., '47), Richardson made a political name for himself as U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts by prosecuting Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, provider of Sherman Adams' famous vicuna coat, on tax-evasion charges. A Rockefeller supporter in 1968, Richardson nonetheless was invited to Washington as an Under Secretary of State, and his cool, analytical grasp of complex situations attracted the attention of Nixon. Such tough thinking seemed all too rare at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
HARDLY any Administration is free of scandal. Harry Truman had T. Lamar Caudle and assorted "five-percenters." Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams and his vicuna coat. Lyndon Johnson had Bobby Baker-and Abe Fortas. To a cynical public, the recurrent surfacing of peculators and huggermuggers suggests that almost everyone in Washington is on the take. The truth is more reassuring, though bad enough. The capital does tolerate unsavory practices that could and should be stopped...
...General Harry Vaughan, Truman's military aide. Though no evidence of a direct payoff was uncovered, Vaughan did receive a freezer from one of Hunt's clients, and the Democratic Party was the recipient of numerous gifts. A few years later, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine gave a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief White House aide, who intervened for Goldfine with two regulatory agencies. Again, there was no evidence of a payoff, but Adams was forced to resign. Lobbyist Julius Klein had such a grip on Senator Thomas Dodd that he was able to write...
...black peasant-delegate from Haiti. During the Pope's speech, the honored peasants sat behind him on a flag-decked platform. Afterward, they received his blessing and gave him gifts, including a bottle of chicha (corn beer) from Chile and a Peruvian wreath of alpaca, llama, and vicuna known as a chopo...
Magic Ingredient. Kilgour, French & Stanbury, whose clients include Novelist Patrick Dennis, David Merrick and CBS Chairman William Paley, thought nothing of fitting two vicuna overcoats for a 20th Century-Fox executive in the VIP lounge of the London Airport while he was between planes. Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor Erich Leinsdorf remembers that "whenever I played at Festival Hall, Stanbury would go there and study my motions so he could improve my full-dress suit...