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Nancy made the first move. On opening night she appeared, a stunning study in red, in the glass-enclosed VIP booth high above the floor on the north end. Cheering her as a surrogate for her absent husband, Reagan supporters broke into a foot-stamping ovation that lasted more than 15 minutes. During the tumult Betty arrived, in an aqua dress, and took her seat in the front row above the floor on the south end. But her arms-high greeting could not overwhelm the Reaganites' demonstration...
...back veranda of the mansion. The Governor ran all his top appointments through his confidant. Carter made a nearby Capitol office available to him, and several times each week Kirbo would pull up in his pickup truck, much to the annoyance of Capitol guards, and park in a VIP space...
...VIP Treatment. Sanjay's enormous advantage is that his name is already known to millions of Indians. Last month he was elected to the executive committee of the youth wing of the ruling Congress Party. He also attended the party's national convention at Chandigarh, where he was given VIP treatment. Arriving unannounced one day at the delegate's dining hall for lunch, he was greeted with shouts of "Sanjay Gandhi zindabad!" (Long live Sanjay Gandhi!)-the sort of accolade usually reserved for national leaders...
...apparent. My cousin's ticket came from her father's friend, a businessman who once pitched minor league ball and now throws batting practice for the Red Sox before gametime. Almost everyone at the first game of the Series had some similar story of at least vague ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part of the Milwaukee Braves. And, I might as well confess, my ticket...
...Chicago office that has neither furnishings nor secretary. Since taking up his duties in Chicago last May, Lownes claims, he has cut $2.8 million out of the home office's $8 million budget for operating the clubs and hotels. Among his moves: he has decided to discontinue VIP, a magazine for key holders, at an estimated saving of $800,000 a year, and he has cut in half the home-office club and hotel staff by firing 50 people, including the entire "Bunny department," which once kept files and tabs on every Playboy Bunny in America...