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...list suggested not so much a banquet as the formation of Democratic labor battalions to march on Republican strongholds. For the guests' delectation, there were 11,000 filet mignons, 3,500 lbs. of potatoes and 1,800 lbs. of carrots. The appetizer was 2,200 lbs. of fruit cocktail. Desserts: 11,000 créme de menthe parfaits. Lest throats become parched, 2,010 qt. of liquor and 130 cases of beer were readied at 80 bars...
...guests began filing in at 5:30 p.m. at the approximate pace of a World Series crowd. While they drank to tinkling background music of polkas and show tunes, the mayor and his wife joined a select group of 150 VIPs in a snug cocktail setting behind the speaker's platform. The union leaders pawed their way toward the mayor, beaming for bulb-popping cameras as they pumped his hand...
...politics. Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, a presidential hopeful, dropped most of the Democratic Governors personal notes asking them to come by his office for a chat. Maine's Governor Kenneth Curtis, North Carolina's Robert Scott and Missouri's Warren Hearnes put together a cocktail party for Edmund Muskie. But even presidential politics could not keep the Governors from their preoccupation with finding a means to have the Federal Government relieve financial pressures on their home states. "It's like sex in a barracks bull session," explained Utah's Democratic Governor Calvin Rampton...
...Alex in Wonderland, is just an excuse for him to voice his support for the Peace Treaty and his disgust with the war. So while his two-day visit to Boston includes a day-long round of interviews, tapings and television appearances, it primarily centers on a fund-raising cocktail party with Noam Chomsky speaking against the war and Sutherland reading passages from Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Get Your Gun, the money raised going to support various drives to bring the People's Peace Treaty before the American electorate...
...Cocktail parties are all right if you find one person and talk to him. Cocktail parties are all right if you find one painting and look at it. But why bother bringing paintings or people together? Do we put the Stein collection together only to look individually at Picasso's Cubist landmarks: his famous 1906 portrait of Gertrude or his Student with a Pipe...