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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Onassis may well represent a distillation of many desires. Onassis is a man of considerable magnetism. Some of his friends profess to see him as part Alexander the Great (for whom he probably named his son), part a Hellenic Great Gatsby. He is iron-willed, infinitely considerate of his women, vain of his limitless ability to charm, entertain and protect those whom he likes or loves...
...self-educated, Onassis is well-read in classical Greek history and speaks six languages: Greek, Turkish, English, Spanish, French, Italian. A night person and an insomniac, he is a hypnotic raconteur and used to fascinate guests at dinner parties in Hyannisport with his recollections of Winston Churchill. Friends, particularly women, prize him as a perfect listener. Even more peripatetic than Jackie, he caroms around the world carrying only a battered attaché case and a gold-embossed red leather appointment book. Duplicate sets of clothing await him at his pieds-à-terre in Paris (on the Avenue Foch), London (Claridge...
...through: "Humphrey stays in Detroit overnight." Scrap the airport greeting. Organize a daytime rite. At 3 p.m. came another call: "Humphrey arrives in Hartford at 11 a.m." Scrap the housewives. Goodbye, Connecticut General. A fuming Bailey reached Humphrey again and growled: "You're going to stand up 300 women and 2,000 insurance people because you want to sleep one more hour?" Then came the final call. "Hold everything." Humphrey might make the housewives' chat after...
...Galbraith, peripatetic ambassador, author, political adviser and now professor at Harvard, took the occasion of his 60th birthday for a bit of mental meandering. On age: "I shan't be sorry when men begin to refer to me as old. But I'll be awfully sorry when women do." On politics: "Don't go near any political headquarters. Except for a stirring at election time, they're a kind of grim repository of people who like politics and can't get jobs elsewhere." On the Washington scene: "No tourist should leave Washington without seeing...
Hayden said that these programs "try to make new men and women out of the ghetto people," by forcing them into the white middle class mold. This attempt to involve blacks in participatory democracy and pressure group politics, Hayden said, represents a "neo-colonial technique which avoids an examination of the assumed values underlying...