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...twelve-mile fishing limit. Marginal Notes. The President and the Prime Minister were quite obviously pleased with their accomplishment and felt that most, if not all, the differences that had arisen between the two countries in the last year of the Diefenbaker regime had been dispelled. At a cocktail party the first afternoon, Pearson brought down the roof by quipping, when an aide handed him a memo, "Mr. President, I've just found this piece of paper lying around. I'd better check to make sure there are no marginal notes on it."* Humor and good fellowship filled...
...enjoy meeting each other face to face, as we hope they have enjoyed meeting each other in the pages of TIME." Light Hearts & Great Issues. The people who were there got the point. In serious vein or in high spirits, they found time for deep conversation, for light-hearted cocktail chat, for thoughtful listening to the presentation of great issues, for seeing and being seen, for meeting and getting met. Many of the guests found the way to the Waldorf paved by a pair of preliminary, ice-breaking get-togethers in the days preceding the key event...
Come to think of it, the Gargoyle editors are pretty regular guys, too. They helped the Lampoon ship the bird, figuring that their colleagues might not be able to take time off from all those cocktail parties for celebrities...
...although Whyte admits that a tighter, more competitive economy has made for many sharper, less brotherly elbows. Besides, as automation displaces many straight clerical jobs, there is growing demand for skilled, creative people?and a growing willingness to take them as they are. There is a thriving washroom and cocktail-party folklore about corporate togetherness (the oil company chemist who is instructed to buy only company gasoline, the assistant vice president being told what car he should or should not drive). At the same time, businesses are becoming sensitive and corporations...
...Third Lover flashes a beacon of straightforward storytelling over the dark seas of French cinematic symbolism: with its honest camera work and well-motivated plot, the film is unlikely to provoke much cocktail party comment because it is so understandable...