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Aside from the official Anglo-American retinue, only Gerald and Betty Ford came to lunch. Annenberg had joked that for every gadabout he invited to lunch with his royal pals, he made ten or 25 enemies. (Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, expecting even more ill will from his big civic lunch the next day, said he thus "made 350 friends and 3 million enemies," in all "enough to make some of us hope it never happens again.") After lunch, as the Annenbergs' staff of 50 cleared away the maple-soufflé dishes and champagne (1970 Dom Perignon) glasses...
...county and thus have never met here. "Without the lounge we would show a small profit," said Gore, "but we make big money now." Ramada Inns and the Hilton chain are talking with Colbert boosters about building in the county, and the boosters themselves are talking about a civic center...
...have had little success so far, in part because local papers have not adequately covered the boycott. Citizens should support the efforts of the disabled to gain dignified access to Boston movie theaters. Even better would be letters to the Sack management or to newspapers demanding a bit more civic-mindedness...
Hooray for fun-loving, High School Dropout Cornelia Guest! However, it should be noted that many debutantes have gone on to become lawyers, journalists, educators, businesswomen and civic leaders. Let's not be too eager to sell the American debt short...
...only is the climate inimical, but the drug traffic has blasted apart the social order, enriching undesirables and demoralizing the forces of civic order. Rawden knows that he and his agents can achieve only hollow victories on the side of law and order: "There's so much stuff coming in that we could arrest just the grandmothers and do just as well." Even Cruz complains about what has happened to the neighborhood: "People used to come down here just to spend their money, but now they're not happy unless they go back with more. They...