Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter went to the mid-term Democratic convention in Memphis to raise the party's consciousness about budget cutting. Teddy Kennedy went out to oppose Carter. Next day back in Washington, Kennedy was scheduled to share the presidential box at the benefit for the Special Olympics, a Kennedy family project. It might have been one of those times that a President, just slightly irritated over Kennedy's divisive tactics, could have called in with a cold. But too many people were watching. Carter put on his tux and his grin and went...
...California law officers descended on a sparsely developed section of Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Their quarry was Charles ("Chuck") Dederich, 65, the founder of Synanon, who was wanted in connection with an attempt in October to murder Los Angeles Attorney Paul Morantz with a rattlesnake hidden in his mail box. The officers found Dederich at home. Said Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John Watson: "He was in a stupor, staring straight ahead, with an empty bottle of Chivas Regal in front of him." Because his physical condition did not permit him to be formally arraigned in the local sheriffs office...
...foreign meetings a year, and then only if they can prove that they spent at least six hours a day in working sessions. The American Psychiatric Association, which met in Toronto last May, issued each delegate IBM cards to be filled out after each session, dropped in a box, certified by an A.P.A. official and mailed back to the delegate so that he could submit them to the IRS. Convention-industry officials complain that the record-keeping requirements are onerous and that it invites retaliatory moves by foreign governments...
...dealers (who have a reputation as particularly free spenders) are hotly desired by local convention officials. They can be expected to spend triple the average conventioneer's $50 daily outlay. New York City went to extraordinary lengths to court and cater to the American Trucking Association this year (see box). Waikiki postponed its Aloha Week parade last October lest the road from the airport be blocked for the 15,000 delegates to the American Bankers Association (who spent $8 million in one weekend). Less sought after are religious sects, because their followers are often poor as church mice, and federal...
...box of Havanas for Dapper Dan Steiner...