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...same thing could happen this year and this time I'll be there to see it, instead of 40 miles away from the action. If you're going to the game, remember to check out the offer on the back of your ticket. Your stub is worth a free cocktail at a nearby hotel...
...unsurpassed view of the scenery," H.L. Mencken once observed, "but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them." In 1976 six people died, and two have been killed so far this year. Minor mishaps usually result merely in awkward landings-in the midst of neighbors' cocktail parties, or atop trees. A balloonist once alighted on the grounds of the Santa Rita county prison in California and was hastily evacuated by officials...
...going to mean something this time. It's one of my most favorite things that's happened." Well, yes. Thus Farrah Fawcett-Majors described the joys of her new career-as a perfume tycoon for Faberge. Corporate brass celebrated the deal with a Beverly Hills cocktail party last week, where among the guests was Faberge Director Cary Grant, who had never before met the lionized lady. Besides making ads for TV commercials, Farrah will endorse her own line of cosmetics and has been promised a hand in everything, from choosing fragrances and hair-care ingredients to package designing...
...such male bluster works only if females allow it to work. Among many monogamous birds, a female will mate only with a male willing to build nests before copulating. Presumably, human females have much more power to breed machismo out of the population. At cocktail parties, women often ask Anthropologist Irven DeVore when men will give up machismo. His immodest-but sociobiologically correct-reply: when women like you stop selecting high-success, strutting men like me. "Males," says DeVore, "are a vast breeding experiment run by females...
...least twelve hotels within 10 min. of airport, the O'Hare Hilton reached by moving sidewalk. Amenities: ordinary. Comfortable boarding lounges. Adequate snack bars and coffee shops, some open 24 hr. Best restaurant: Seven Continents and good eating at O'Hare Hilton. Ten bars, closing at midnight, cocktail lounges at 1 a.m., beer available 24 hr. in the cafeteria. Shopping facilities: minimal, but excellent boutiques at O'Hare Hilton and International Tower hotels. Two barbershops. Two first-aid stations, one open 24 hr. Overall: huge, well organized...