At grocery stores in posh Washington neighborhoods, grits are suddenly selling briskly. The city's ritziest catering firm is planning to offer two varieties of peanut canapes to its high-toned clientele. Real estate agents are swarming over every outlander rumored to be in line for a Government post and trying to explain that in exclusive Georgetown, $40,000 might buy a garage but certainly not a house. Copying machines are busily grinding out resumes for 2,200 or so soon-to-be-jobless Republican appointees. And the city's social climbers are agonizing over the possibility that they may...
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