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...orchestra played and Julia beamed, mugged and moved her chaotic voice through the narrator's role in Tubby the Tuba. The Boston audience loved it and gluttonously demanded an encore. Reverting to her metier by wheeling out a cartful of bottles, the obliging Julia rapidly concocted a cocktail and served it to Conductor Arthur Fiedler precisely on time with the orchestra's final tonic chord...
Conviviality is the rule aboard the Golden Gate. Several semipermanent cocktail groups have formed, each with its own quasi-reserved section of deck space. Crew members have been known to introduce lonesome secretaries to shy brokers, and Captain Chuck Riechert, who went to the extreme of obtaining a mail-order certificate as a minister, last February conducted the on-board wedding of a devoted Golden Gate couple...
...level, the Bundys, McNamaras, McNaughtons, Yarmolinskys, Hilsmans and Rostows enjoyed the sophisticated cocktail parties and the company of Kennedys. They aimed witty dinnertime barbs at 30-year officers who would never understand the intricacies of counterguerrilla warfare. The more junior Ellsbergs were jockeying to break into that inner circle, while enjoying the kick of being so close. Yet those paper theories of outwitting Hanoi and outfoxing guerrillas did not work. Nor did sustained bombing or half a million U.S. troops. When some of the frustrated technocrats visited Viet Nam to see what had gone wrong, they discovered that those body...
...other times, informal dinners, cocktail parties and entertainment at night occupy those who are motivated to attend the plethora of functions annually scheduled for Reunion Week. Many will choose the more sedate atmosphere of small, informal gatherings...
...wife Joan (who narrates Peter and the Wolf), seemed to be late everywhere they went. Joan kept Mayor Peter Kramer and the fire department band cooling their heels for 45 minutes at the City Hall. Joan was at least an hour late for U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush's cocktail party. Joan was two hours late for the party given by West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel: Teddy was only 20 minutes late for his appointment with Chancellery Minister Horst Ehmke. At a reception given by the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, Teddy was 90 minutes late and Joan...