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Glaring Misuse. To justify withholding the summaries of the tapes, the White House argued that the inconclusive material would somehow be "misused" against the President. As a glaring example of such misuse, the White House cited the recent case of Attorney William Dobrovir. He entertained a Georgetown cocktail party by playing part of a presidential tape that he had got as evidence in a civil suit. The suit challenged the Administration's boost in milk price supports after milk cooperatives had made contributions to the Nixon re-election campaign...
...Just such a leak occurred last week. A tape of a Nixon meeting with milk producers on March 23,1971, had been subpoenaed from the White House by Attorney William Dobrovir as evidence in a civil suit challenging the Administration's increase in milk-price supports. At a cocktail party in Washington attended by six other people, Dobrovir played five minutes of the tape "just...
Earlier in the evening Levine, his wife and son met with President Bok, attended a cocktail party at Winthrop House, and a dinner in his honor at the Faculty Club...
...search for rising air often leads to unanticipated landings-most often in the fields of surprised farmers. One pilot who touched down on a private ranch airstrip in Nevada found himself at the center of an impromptu cocktail party for 20 and was invited to dinner. Not all forced landings turn out so well. Industrial Engineer George Asdel recalls putting down at a military base where nuclear weapons were stored; he was greeted by machine guns and kept under armed guard for five hours. "We are always in trouble," says Dan Danieli, a grocer who practices his best manners...
...Falks shun the cocktail-party circuit, but their small circle of friends includes his Husbands buddies, Director John Cassavetes and Actor Ben Gazzara, as well as Mike Nichols, Elaine May and M-A-S-H's Wayne Rogers. The circle is tightly knit. It was Nichols who directed Falk in Prisoner of Second Avenue on Broadway. Last summer Falk completed a film directed by May, Mikey and Nicky, in which he co-stars with Cassavetes. He has also helped to finance a new Cassavetes-directed film, Women Under the Influence, in which he co-stars with Cassavetes' wife...