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...Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, whose eternal ebullience is still enjoyed by his longtime colleagues. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, deposed from his job as majority whip only minutes before in a stunning upset, quietly beckoned the man who beat him, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd, to take over his front-row desk. Byrd sympathetically declined and the two sat side by side at the rear of the chamber throughout the opening ceremony...
...staff of 59, of whom 20 cover fashion?sometimes in a peculiarly Fairchild way. At last month's opening of the Givenchy Boutique at Bergdorf Goodman's in Manhattan, four front-row seats were reserved for WWD. They remained empty until five minutes before the showing ended. Then a peasant-skirted, elaborately coifed young girl skittered in, occupied one of the four seats, took a note or two, and left. A few sketches of the boutique ran in "Eye" the next day without any comment...
...Dynasty (A.D. 618-906). That slight Oriental connection is one of the few similarities between the two men. Where Dirksen was a conciliator, expert in sub rosa dealings with Democrats, Scott is an acerbic infighter who means to do open partisan battle from his new front-row desk on the Senate aisle that divides the two parties. "I'm more of a militant," says Scott. "I've drawn a little white line down the middle aisle...
Subdued Greetings. Kennedy's return to the Senate might have seemed a welcome opportunity to plunge back into his duties. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield greeted him: "Come in, Ted. You're right back where you belong." But Kennedy sat seemingly distracted and depressed at his front-row Senate desk as summer tourists crowded the galleries for a glimpse of him and his colleagues offered subdued and embarrassed greetings...
...approached, Sinclair returned to writing full time. He began the eleven-volume series of novels that had as its unlikely hero Lanny Budd, a wealthy young American art dealer who wangles a secretary's job at the 1919 Paris peace conference and manages to find a front-row seat at nearly every historic event from then through 1949. The Lanny Budd novels contain in simple form a fictionalized, you-are-there chronicle of the 20th century. Dragon's Teeth (1942), third in the series, describes the rise of Hitler and won Sinclair a Pulitzer Prize...