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...night Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra gave a state dinner in the palm-lined patio of the neoclassic Itamarati Palace. While a company of 120-the men in black ties and the women in low-cut gowns-nibbled pheasant and sipped champagne, swans glided in a candlelit pool and ballet dancers whirled on a special stage. Ignoring the rain, the ladies seized a lifetime's chance and swept into each new party crowned with ostrich feathers, aigrette plumes, flowers and veiling...
...have saved Lupescu all along." Carol hired a considerably more expensive publicity man (Russell Birdwell; fee: $35,000) to get them admitted to the U.S., but he failed. The couple went to Mexico City, where they lived quietly in the dignified old suburb of Coyoacan. Invitations to their small, candlelit parties were sought eagerly. Later they went to Brazil, where they stayed at Rio's Copacabana Palace...
...those doing the legwork, it was a matter of finding and questioning a lot of people, big & little, who had the vital big & little facts. Gibbs groped through candlelit corridors buttonholing Government and opposition M.P.s, listened to the Commons debating fuel with four of the ten light clusters in the chambers symbolically turned off, and, to get the political reaction, read the 17,000 words sent in by the stringers in the stricken cities of Manchester, Sunderland, Leeds, Bristol, Cardiff, Bradford, Blackpool...
Visitors to Washington's National Gallery last week found themselves on a rubberneck tour of 18th-Century London. They peered into brawling alleys and elegant, candlelit drawing rooms; into prisons where the whipping posts were "the reward of idleness" and cockpits where the gamblers seemed more ferocious than the cocks. The tour conductors: blunt, biting William Hogarth, ribald Thomas Rowlandson...
...first Elizabethan comedy since 1941. A virtually unexpurgated production of Thomas Middleton's bawdy "A Chaste Maid of Cheapside," with a cast of 16, will be given at 7:30 o'clock in the dining room and will be open to House members only. The yearly dinner, with candlelit tables, Yule log ceremony, and carols will be held on Monday night...