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...Sacramento, two youths dropped Molotov cocktail fire bombs outside Governor Ronald Reagan's home when a bodyguard opened fire. Police said the incident was the probable aftermath to a racial disturbance near by. - In Long Island's suburban Nassau County, police acted on a telephone tip and removed a fragmentation hand grenade set to explode at the turn of a heater switch in a car belonging to County Executive Eugene Nickerson...
...advancing on Washington. The President and the White House are slowly being shadowed. Johnson falls with increasing regularity from the front pages of the papers-although he can still agitate the photographers when an occasion like his grandson's first birthday comes up. He is forgotten in cocktail conversation that dwells on new candidates. His presence does not pervade the Government. Events, of course, could resurrect him. Crisis could make him the man of the moment. But as soon as the tense times passed, he would fade again. Perhaps he can move back to center stage with travel...
...lime. For thirsty Americans, however, the Mexican ritual is too time-consuming and ritualistic: the drinker sucks the lime, licks the salt from the back of his thumb, and only then tosses back the tequila. Número uno for the American tequila fans is the Margarita, a cocktail made with lime juice, Cointreau or Triple Sec and tequila, all poured over shaved ice and served in a frosty glass rimmed with salt. To push tequila into the really big time, the drink's backers have thought up more than 40 different recipes, including a Gringolet (with lime juice...
...Cocktail Tapings. Now syndicated five half-hours a week in 83 cities, Girl Talk draws an average audience of 2,000,000, ranging from a Hollywood scriptwriter who listens for the flavor of women's dialogue, to, on at least one occasion, Lyndon Johnson. Most of the viewers, though, are women and of an age that leads Virginia to privately retitle her program "The Menopausal Romper Room...
Girl Talk is telecast in most areas during the day but is taped at the cocktail hour "because," says Virginia, "women talk better then. The later the show, the more the barriers are down." And the dudgeons up. Once Actress Natalie Schafer greeted Columnist Sheilah Graham (no kin to Virginia) with: "Oh, I'm so glad to meet you. You were the cause of my divorce." Sheilah was also clawed by Zsa Zsa Gabor, who suggested that the columnist was too old to write about love...