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...They" were Jimmy Carter and the members of his new Administration, all freshly sworn in and now making their first foray out on the Washington dinner circuit. One by one, the freshmen Congressmen at the Press Club bash rose to offer irreverent toasts to the new boys in the Executive Branch. Cracked Ohio Democrat Mary Rose Oakar: "It is nice to know that you can Dial-A-Prayer and get the President of the United States to answer...
Among those on hand for the five-day, $3 million bash were, for example, Ernest and Audrey Wiesen of Wauwatosa, Wis. They went to work for Carter after he gave a talk at their daughter's school, and when they received an invitation, they asked themselves why not-and saved $600 to make the journey. Postal Worker Ginny Scott of Santa Ana, Calif., took her Las Vegas vacation money and used it for the Inauguration instead. Said she: "I would have lost it in Vegas anyway." Then there was the group of maids from Detroit, Tulsa, New York...
...travel agent for the Inaugural odyssey was Maxine Reese, who, while managing the Carter campaign headquarters in the Plains rail depot last June, had started arranging the bash. "Jimmy told me he was going to win, so I figured we had to hire a train to take Plains to Washington," said Maxine. Now she had the train-and an $85,000 bill from Amtrak. As she settled into her seat, the ample Maxine also had a bottle of Taittinger champagne, a "pair of thermal underwear that would stretch around a live oak tree," and a new lowcut, black Inaugural dress...
...Amin is planning as bash to celebrate the sixth anniversary of the military coup that made him President of Uganda. The invitation list is impressive-though the R.S.V.P.s are not all in. Among those invited: Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whom "Big Daddy" has challenged to a debate; former British Prime Minister Edward Heath, who has been asked to conduct a band; Japanese ex-Lieut. Hiroo Onoda, who spent 30 years in the Philippine jungle before he discoverd that World War II was over. A personal appearance by such a dedicated soldier, says Amin, would "contribute greatly to raising...
...address (rented for the occasion). A 3-ft-high hazelnut cake with pink icing had tilted to starboard in its box during shipping, but Hostess Shere Hite, author of the bestselling study of female sexuality, The Hite Report, propped it up with her 438-page tome. Hite threw the bash for friends who had helped her through her 3½ years of research for the book. Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans both in cash and in style. Said Virginio Del Toro...