Word: cocktailing
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...intensification of reunions. Alumni shack in student dorms, eat at the Harvard Union, meet Faculty members who give a couple of lectures, and have group-pictures taken. For bonuses A.C. gives classes at 8:30 and 9 a.m., reading lists, library privileges, reserved books, and a diploma. Cocktail hour revitalizes burdened minds and provides a natural setting for University personnel (President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, Dean Phelps, Dr. Chase Peterson, Eliot Master, Alan Heimert) to meet alumni. None, however, solicit funds for the College Fund. Perhaps it is felt, as James H. Bates, executive director of the Association of Yale Alumni...
Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott, who did not attend the cocktail meeting, recalls the President's telling him recently on a flight aboard Air Force One: "People can say what they want about me, but one thing they can't say. Stupid I'm not. If I had caught any of these people involved with these goings-on, I'd have fired their asses the hell out of there...
...magisterially, even for men in high places. "If all that is involved is ordinary sexual inter course with prostitutes, this is no crim inal offense." The security risk seemed relatively minor. Declared Diplock: "Such indiscretions are more likely to occur in the kind of conversation that takes place at cocktail parties or around a dinner table than in what might be said to a prostitute in bed." In Lambton's case, whatever security risk there was existed not so much in bed but behind the walls, where cameras and tape machines were recording instant history. Here was the danger...
...below ground level; twelve floors of shops, meeting rooms and restaurants; and above it all, a 37-story-high, wide-open "atrium" around which 2,020 rooms will be arrayed. Through the cavernous atrium, twelve spaceship-like glass elevators will zoom to a bronzed-glass rooftop penthouse containing a cocktail lounge and a revolving restaurant...
James Coburn, Sheila's game player, has made his money as a Hollywood producer. He has invited aboard a week's cruise six of his Hollywood friends: two movie stars, a film script writer, a director and two managers. Beside a common vocabulary of cocktail party quips and a set of stereotypical Hollywood neuroses and remedies, they share the fact that they were all present at a party after which Coburn's wife Sheila was killed by a hit and run driver...