61.   Most customers attending inaugural balls have asked Tran simply to perform new alterations of old dresses lingering in closets or frocks picked off department store racks.

62.   Saturday night, the new president and first lady crisscrossed the capital city to attend eight official inaugural balls.

63.   Texas inaugural ball spokesman Jim Wilkinson said the only reason the society sought corporate money was to pay for its activities.

64.   The final round of partying was scheduled for Saturday night with eight official inaugural balls.

65.   The historic landmark where Walt Whitman nursed soldiers during the Civil War and Abraham Lincoln held his second inaugural ball is an expensive priority for the Smithsonian.

66.   The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the fund-raising arm for the Senate GOP, held its own black-tie inaugural ball Friday evening.