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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: The Smell of the Crowd | 2/24/1979 | See Source »

...benefit for the Special Olympics, a Kennedy family project. It might have been one of those times that a President, just slightly irritated over Kennedy's divisive tactics, could have called in with a cold. But too many people were watching. Carter put on his tux and his grin and went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Time Is Running Thin | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...mask, he insists, can be the essence of civility. Carter sometimes seems to go in the opposite direction to show the world he will not live up to tradition. He would not wear his tuxedo for the state dinner in France's Versailles Palace, but he put the tux on to appear at the political fund raiser in Atlanta set up by his deposed pal Bert Lance. Theodore H. White, an authority on Presidents and how they got there, has long contended that class is a critical part of politics. "Class is a matter of style in leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Troublesome Question of Class | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...friend Milt told me what I should wear. 'Wear a plain colored shirt and a jacket,' he told me. I know they don't like colorful dressers because my friends told me not to dress the way I usually do. And then, the first time I got into a tux--the first time ever--I was standing in the club talking to Tom and he told me that I had my studs in backwards. 'Go into the bathroom and change those things,' Tom said to me. That's how I knew clothes were important." Ed adds that he felt that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ed Bordley Grapples with Being Blind, Being Black and Being at Harvard | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

...ballroom of the towering Sheraton-Oak Brook Hotel. Looking on genially, Principal William Scheid says, "This is the night they pull out all the stops." Senior Donald McNeff does just that as he arrives with his date in a chauffeur-driven limousine. He is wearing a white tux and top hat, and he is carrying a cane. Delighted by creating a momentary sensation, he explains: "I wanted to have some fun for once. Everywhere we stopped, people freaked out." McNeff has arranged to keep the limousine, at a cost of $25 an hour, to carry him and his friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Taking a Last, Gaudy Fling | 6/13/1977 | See Source »

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