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Richard Nixon looked over the list of cities bidding for his party's 1972 convention and did not like what he saw: Chicago, Miami Beach. Houston, Louisville, San Francisco. Said the President: "Let's get some more options. Let's get San Diego in there." Thus a...
For their part, the G.O.P. will probably end up in a city that never even considered bidding: San Diego. President Nixon seems taken with the idea of holding his renomination convention only a half-hour's hop from the Western White House helipad. The city has managed to scrape...
Defense contractors have often been accused of playing fast and loose with the public's money by bidding low for a new project and later billing the Pentagon for enormous cost overruns. But now the financial tribulations of Lockheed (see following story), which has been directed by Congress to...
It was a mixer at Lowell House during that first fall, and Ted, who no longer exchanged letters with the cheerleader he had loved in high school, asked a Simmons girl to dance. Out in the quad, under a crescent moon, he sat the girl down and proceeded to get...
During the bidding, an anonymous Californian bid $5,000 for a case of rare Inglenook wine from the Napa Valley, by far the highest price ever paid for domestic produce. New York Restaurateur Joseph Santo paid $12,100 for a 55-case collection of French, German and American wines, which...