Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Monsieur is no exception. The au thor of the lush and intricate Alexandria Quartet here invents a novelist named Blanford, who invents a novelist named Sutcliffe, who caricatures Blanford mercilessly as "Bloshford," a bestselling hack. The book is one of those box-within-box amusements: Sutcliffe, as a character in a novel by Blanford, cracks up in the process of writing a novel in which he misinterprets the situations of some of his friends, other Blanford characters. These convolutions lead to the expectable mild ironies of viewpoint, but the plot is too sketchily developed to constitute the novel...
...night before flying to California, Dean enjoyed a steak in an Alexandria, Va., restaurant with Peter Kinsey, a former member of Dean's staff as counsel to President Nixon. Dean served four months of his one-to four-year term for obstructing justice. Kalmbach, who completed the minimum six months of his sixto 18-month sentence, dined in Washington with his lawyers. Once Nixon's personal attorney, he had raised much of the hush money paid secretly to the original Watergate defendants. Magruder, the former deputy director of Nixon's 1972 re-election committee, who had admitted...
Relaxed Style. Mrs. Ford's friends from the years in Congress visit often. One evening she served the same stuffed peppers she used to have in their Alexandria, Va., kitchen and was roundly kidded by her guests. A budget watcher, even with her husband's $200,000 salary, Mrs. Ford recently instructed Chef Henry Haller on how to make pot roast. "With turnips?" asked the amazed chef. She insisted: "That's just the way we have it at home." The relaxed style does not stop at the White House gates. Mrs. Ford, with her personal assistant Nancy...
...dramatic as the clearing of the canal has been the restoration of the main cities that line it. Since the 1967 war, Port Said, Ismailia and Suez had been part of the Arab-Israeli battleground, and most residents had fled for safety to such cities as Cairo and Alexandria. After the Israeli pullback from Suez last March, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat gave priority to a $7.2 billion renovation plan for the Canal Zone -in part to create a visible symbol of Egypt's desire for peace...
Shortly after Ford moved into the White House he went back to his Alexandria home to pick up his shoe trees. A graduate of the Nixon School of Imperial Protocol was aghast because American Presidents are not supposed to indulge in such menial tasks. Fortunately Ford has not as yet found out that he is completely above the humdrum routines of daily existence...