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...them (an old trick that prevents the broadsides from being picked up and used again). "That's a good sign," says Bagwell. "Two years ago they dropped our pamphlets like snow." It is not uncommon for a worker to sidle up with a wink, fold back his lapel and expose a concealed Bagwell button. Even Democratic leaders figure that one-third of Wayne County's workers will vote for Bagwell...
That unparalleled mixture of dignity and servility, the British butler, has lived for generations by the code of discretion. With an impassive "Very good, sir," he nonchalantly brushes a golden hair from the lapel of an employer whose brunette wife is impatiently awaiting him. He uses exactly the right tone of gentle authority when informing distraught young ladies that his master is not at home. Family secrets are locked inside his impassive exterior as in a tomb...
...together, and Johnson afterward joked that he had asked for tips on how to run for Vice President from a man with a lot of experience at it. New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller showed up sporting a big "I'm for Nixon" button on one lapel and an elephant-shaped "Nixon" pin on the other, told newsmen that he was planning to make 120 speeches for Nixon during the remaining 60-odd days of the campaign...
...proud moment in the life of moonfaced Earl C. Corey when he was summoned to Washington in May 1959 to receive the Department of Agriculture's Superior Service Award. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson himself pinned a silver medal on Corey's lapel, cited his "significant contributions to agriculture through his fine relationships with producing, warehousing and merchandising groups...
...expensive imagination. Lytton had his swimming pool filled in to make room for more people at a party he gave last week at his Holmby Hills mansion, wove among his guests with a microphone obtrusively pinned to his lapel so that his each and every word could be heard throughout the grounds over 39 loudspeakers strapped to the shrubbery...