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...William Bender...
...time, our bureaus filed their assessments of the startling news, to from Hong Kong, Bruce Nelan described the events that led to the apparent softening of Peking's foreign policy. ∙ Every music critic dreams of picking up a baton and conducting an orchestra. For Music Critic William Bender, fantasy became reality last week when he went to hear the American Wind Symphony Orchestra per form on a barge anchored in the Ohio River off the sleepy Appalachian town of to W. Va. Accepting what he mistakenly perceived to be a tongue-in-cheek invitation from Symphony Director Robert...
...dandy performance, if I do say so myself," says Bender, whose Emmy extracurricular achievements include writing last year's Emmy Award-winning television documentary, Leopold Stokowski. "I am still not sure whether the good folk of Ravenswood were applauding my baton work care. A fireworks display that accompanied it, and I don't care. A good hand is a good hand...
...guests: Chief of Protocol Emil Mosbacher Jr., Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns and Paul Keyes, a former writer for TV's Laugh-In. The President's brothers, Donald and Edward Nixon, will attend, as will Mrs. Nixon's brothers. William and Thomas Ryan, and her half brother, Matthew Bender. At one point, Mrs. Nixon suggested throwing all the names in the air and inviting the ones that landed faceup. After the invitations went out, the White House phone began ringing with calls from scores of chagrined friends ?and strangers?who claimed that their invitations had been lost...
...next offering, Lot No. 56. He did not have to explain why. Lot No. 56 consisted of a single 24-ounce bottle of Château Lafite, vintage 1846, that was described as "quite unfaded and fantastic." After several minutes of quiet, tense bidding, it was sold to Laurence Bender, a 25-year-old officer of Boston's venerable wine and spirits merchants, John Gilbert Jr. Co. The price: $5,000, more than ten times the previous world record for one bottle and enough to make each sip of the classic Bordeaux worth...