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...Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) and U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass), the jackpot seems to lie in Las Vegas and Puerto Rico, where cocktail parties and hotel-hopping this year have helped to fatten their campaign piggy-banks...
Machado, who gave $2,000 to Kennedy's campaign, says he held a cocktail party for the Brighton representative at his house before proceeding to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Cerromar for dinner and conversation...
...historian, for example could know the complete history of every officer above the rank of major that fought in the civil War; but aside from impressing people at cocktail parties, this historian could easily have an entirely unremarkable career as a Civil War scholar unless he could apply this knowledge to come up with an interesting evaluation of the events he is studying...
Bishop was blessed and cursed with severe good taste. "I'm rather critical," she told one correspondent with thundering understatement. Her letters regularly registered her dislikes. She called a performance of T.S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party "a mess." She found "a streak of insensitivity" in the poetry of William Carlos Williams. Not even children's books escaped her opprobrium. After meeting E.B. White, she read a copy of his Charlotte's Web and then reported that it is "so awful." She was hardest of all on her own work. Apologizing for her meager output, she begged Moore...
...into more than 150 smaller, independent carriers while the centralized system of maintenance, safety inspections and quality control vanished into thin air. The effect on safety has been chilling. In Armenia last December, 34 people died when a cargo plane illegally carrying passengers crashed and exploded like a Molotov cocktail. Examiners later determined that the aircraft had been loaded with two poorly secured automobiles stuffed with cans of gasoline, and that many of the passengers were also clutching jugs of gasoline as carry-on luggage. In Irkutsk this January, the pilot of a Tupolev-154 ignored a warning from...