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...replacing olives or lemon twists in martinis. Finnish bakers have a way with malty, palate-scrubbing sourdough rye crisp breads; the latest welcome entry is Kings Bread, crackling thin and cut into elegantly long and narrow shapes. No less delicious and even more delicate are the translucent golden Swiss Cocktail Wafers made by HUG, equally good seasoned with caraway or cheese...
...sweep up and down from time to time by 50 points or more a day. When individuals reap an overnight windfall, they can become manic and even a little careless about where to put the money next. "Clients are calling about speculative stocks that they've heard about at cocktail parties over the weekend. I'm worried about this," says Jerry Tisserand, a broker for Thomson McKinnon Securities at a branch in Evansville, Ind. At the same time, many investors realize that a bear market could hit at any moment. Some become spooked by sudden downdrafts and sell too soon...
Keith, who The Herald said appears to have broken no laws, appeared with Dukakis when the governor kicked off his presidential campaign April 29. Last year, he raised at least $45,000 for Dukakis by hosting a $500-a-ticket cocktail party for the governor and his wife at Keith's Milton home...
...Sidey and Osborne are totally against us," Nixon dictated to Aides Bob Haldeman and Ron Ziegler on April 14. "They are not honest reporters. Both have spoken in the most vicious derogatory terms of RN in the place where you really find out what the people think -- the Georgetown cocktail parties . . . From now through the election, neither Sidey nor Osborne is to be included in the news summary regardless of what they write, positive or negative . . . I am now ordering . . . that Osborne and Sidey be cut off in as effective a way as possible. This means that their calls simply...
...memory serves, and it probably does, there were so many people around the White House willing to talk to anybody that Osborne and I never caught on. Being a man of the far 'burbs, I am mystified about the dark mutterings of Georgetown cocktail parties. But then Nixon and a lot of others often used Georgetown as a handle for the source of any evil that sprang...