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...party at the Washington Hilton last Friday night was a grand bash. Hundreds of guests mingled convivially, munching on fried chicken, hand-carved roast beef and ham. As the good spirit, and good spirits, flowed, the only odd note was the cause of the celebration: Government employees, past and present, were saluting the abolition of their agency, the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...from time to time. Now, if you are in the minority, that is when you can put out a lot of newsletters and say "I'm for lower taxes" and "I'm not going to worry about spending or the deficit" and "We're going to bash Paul Volcker [chairman of the Federal Reserve] and get interest rates down...
Democratic Bash...
...Monster Bash. The convention's biggest party will be Monday night, when 10,000 delegates, alternates and guests will move directly from the official proceedings to Pier 45, near Fisherman's Wharf, for an extravaganza dubbed "Oh, What a Night." Amid miniature replicas of Telegraph Hill's Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Park's Japanese tea garden, Ghirardelli Square and 13 other San Francisco landmarks, conventioneers will wander among open bars and mountains of ethnic foodstuffs from 9 p.m. to midnight in an area the size of four football fields. The $250,000 fandango, paid...
...long. Her publisher, Bantam Books, celebrated the climb of Out on a Limb to the top spot on the New York Times paperback-bestsellers list. At the 1,992-seat Gershwin Theater, where Shirley MacLaine on Broadway is grossing $475,000 a week, a house record, another bash was thrown by the show's producers. They had heard the star telling an interviewer that the only thing she had never done was to ride an elephant. So when MacLaine arrived at the theater, she was caught by surprise, and nuzzled, by Targa, queen of the Ringling Bros, and Barnum...