Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state shindigs. This one celebrated the 75th birthday of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. As a result of his 1961 stroke, Old Joe can speak only haltingly, and cannot write at all. Despite his handicaps, he is pretty chipper. He rises early each morning, often goes for an after-breakfast ride with Niece Anne Gargan. At night he sometimes watches a movie in the theater that is part of his house...
After the multitiered extravaganza presented to him in Houston on the eve of his 55th birthday, Vice President Lyndon Johnson figured he had had his cake (and eaten it too). So when he showed up next morning for the weekly White House breakfast with Democratic legislative leaders, he was unbraced for anything festive. Then President Kennedy had a surprise cake brought in, and the Texas birthday boy was downright breathless. It took him four mighty puffs to dispatch the cake's five candles. Tch-tched Florida Senator George Smathers: "Shameful for an ex-Senator...
...year, he was starring in a beach-bum opera called Love Affair at Kamakura. He had been a law student but he abandoned that, began to drink, and was soon in the 800-fan-letters-a-day class. Instead of dried seaweed and rice, he preferred beer for breakfast-and whisky in the evening. With two other working lushes, he once killed two fifths of whisky and eight quarts of sake in six hours...
...steaming black coffee at his elbow. The hectic pace leaves him little time for riding or for sailing, which he used to love. These days his only exercise is at 7 a.m., when he staggers out of bed for half an hour of pushups and weight lifting. Breakfast is the only meal he regularly eats with the family, for his wife never expects him home for dinner. "There's always something prepared for me in the refrigerator," says Pereira, "so food is no problem...
Throughout the eight-week festival, Leinsdorf more than lived up to such high praise. He rose each day for an 8 a.m. breakfast, filled the mornings with rehearsals and conducting classes, the afternoons with conferences and more rehearsals, the evenings with performances. He played through a Mozart series, a Prokofiev cycle, and led his orchestra through a total of 32 works ne-W to Tanglewood, including the American premiere of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem...