Word: waldorfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...delegates' hotels are scattered up and down Manhattan, ranging from the Waldorf Astoria at $47 to $66 a night for a double, to the Abbey Victoria at $30 to $33. Early on in the primary season, Carter's forces had been booked into the City Squire Inn. When Carter became the assured winner, his workers demanded-and got-250 rooms in the much larger Americana, a flashy plastic version of Miami Beach set down on Seventh Avenue. Carter and Wife Rosalynn were assigned a five-room suite with a canopied bed on the 21st floor...
...Plains (see color facing page) to a busy round of highly successful fund-raising affairs. They included a $1,000-per-couple lawn buffet in a tent in Asheville, N.C.; a $250-per-plate breakfast in Milwaukee; a $100-per-person cocktail party in New York's Waldorf-Astoria. He made similar stops in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston and Chicago. The net result: Carter wiped out his remaining $400,000 primary campaign deficit and expects to go into the convention with an extra $400,000 to cover expenses there...
Damp Handshake. He campaigns with an awkward, mechanical passion. "Monckton never thought of handshaking as a personal contact with the electors," Ehrlichman writes. "He was doing all that crap on autopilot." At one point the politically smiling candidate escapes from a crowd at the Waldorf by retreating to an elevator filled with his own staff. Once inside, "his face changed as though he had suddenly broken out of a trance; his smile collapsed, his eyes darkened as if a light had been extinguished...
...called him "the only chairman of the board who isn't giving me trouble these days." In fact, Frank Sinatra, 60, had no reason to give anyone trouble during last week's Friars Roast in Manhattan. With 1,000 guests crammed into the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, the singer ego-tripped through 4½ hours of praise and put-downs from Comedian Don Rickles, New York Governor Hugh Carey and a dais full of old chums. The $200-and $500-a-plate dinner also brought a visit from one hardy Sinatra pal: former Vice President Spiro...
Unlike many independently wealthy ambassadors, Moynihan lives entirely off his $44,600 U.N. salary. The Moynihans are provided with the Waldorf suite, a car and a driver. But their only servant is Hives, a life-sized papier-mache butler who stands at the door of the apartment wearing the castaway clothes of a warm-blooded English butler who once worked for them. The figure is the creation of their son Tim. With all three children away at school, Hives and a wire-haired fox terrier named...