Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love symbolically with George." They include Co-Chairmen Liz Stevens of Washington and Marjorie Benton of Chicago, Xerox Executive Committee Chairman Max Palevsky, Los Angeles Manufacturer Miles Rubin, Actor Warren Beatty, General Motors Heir Stewart Mott, and San Francisco Socialite June Degnan. The members will be invited to attend the Democratic Convention as VIPs, wearing identifying pins. A similar Washington-based club, called "VICS" (Very Important Contributors), requires only a $5,000 donation. Its members have been invited to a McGovern picnic at Ethel Kennedy's home, Hickory Hill...
...part-ownership of the Berkshire Downs race track in Massachusetts during the early 1960s, when other part-owners included two Mafia leaders. But when the committee tried to serve a subpoena on Sinatra, it couldn't find the fast-moving horseman, who turned up in London-to attend some races. He was seen at dinner with Composer Frederick Loewe (My Fair Lady), but then checked out of his hotel for points unknown. Said a hotel spokesman: "Frank Sinatra is not here physically, mentally, spiritually or in any other...
...than environmental. Russia, together with Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, started by boycotting the conference because it had failed to invite Communist East Germany as a full participant. At week's end, Soviet delegates were found holed up in a Stockholm hotel, waiting for word on whether to attend the meetings. But if the U.S. delegates' experience is any indication of the problems the superpowers can encounter within the environmental movement, the Russians may come to wish they had stayed away altogether...
...effect of the Kennedy Center, then, will clearly be staggering. It has already sparked a construction boom of awesome power--a boom which will look insignificant when compared to the commercial explosion expected to attend the Center's opening. Tax-ridden Cantabrigeans are likely to appreciate a new sluice of tax revenues, and some consumers may prefer modernized shopping areas...
...meeting adjourned without considering whether to picket classrooms or to demand a release from exam or class obligations. This was largely in remembrance of the fiasco that followed the 1970 strike when students dissipated their energies by trying to persuade classmates not to attend class instead of engaging in constructive antiwar activities...