Word: attending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have now? One typical day last fortnight, Martha gave a coffee party for a friend in the morning, went to a reception for Mamie Eisenhower in the afternoon, and dined at the Uruguayan embassy, where she and John were guests of honor. "It's almost required of you to attend those foreigners' functions," she complains. "If you miss one, they get upset?even if there are five cocktail parties in one night. I love a small dinner party, and I love to dance. If they really wanted to improve Washington social life, they should include more dancing...
Scatterbrained, overstimulated, and insecure in her role as a newsmaker, Martha likes to tell herself and others about her "projects" and "accomplishments." "I've done a great deal for the Salvation Army. I attend a lot of fun-making functions. Last Thursday I spent two hours doing publicity pictures for the Salvation Army. And recently I did publicity pictures for the pollution bit. I drove way out into Virginia to an adorable little stream that was so polluted and foamy it looked like somebody had poured in a whole bottle of Tide." One of her latest projects is an assault...
...Antonioni's Zabriskie Point had fizzled out. The Strawberry Statement hadn't caught on. Stanley Sweetheart hadn't even been heard from. Somewhere out there were all those youths, many of them paying more money to see Warner Brothers' version of Woodstock than they had paid to attend the actual event. So the MGM executives, never loath to jog after a trend, shoved a camera crew, armed with Metrocolor and Panavision, off to Vegas. Denis Sanders, who had recently won an Oscar for a documentary entitled Czechoslovakia, 1968, was sent along to direct; Lucien Ballard, an old hand at composing...
...officers, who would get extra pay. "The black officer must be someone that black youth can look up to instead of looking up to the dope pusher," says Grimes. Ironically, last week Grimes resigned from the N.Y.P.D. after a dispute over his taking an extra leave of absence to attend law school...
...Gurion, former British Prime Ministers the Earl of Avon (Anthony Eden), Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson, and former West German Chancellors Ludwig Erhard and Kurt-Georg Kiesinger. Seated among the 6,000 mourners in Notre Dame was Senator Edward Kennedy, who remembered De Gaulle's immediate decision to attend the presidential funeral of his brother John in 1963. In the north transept, easily recognizable despite dark glasses and a dark kerchief, was Marlene Dietrich. Notable absentees: any high-level members of the Nigerian government, which is still bitter over De Gaulle's support of the breakaway state...