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...included some of Britain's most respected intellectuals and public officials-argued by spy-thriller logic that neither Donald Maclean nor Guy Burgess could possibly be a spy. Said one friend: "They were too obvious." Both, it turned out, were combative, neurotic alcoholics who blabbed official secrets at cocktail parties, were avowed proCommunists, had been officially reprimanded for their indiscretions...
...floor of peacock-blue carpeting. Marveling, the visitors ran eager hands over a milky terrazzo counter embedded with tiny pieces of brass to simulate marine life on an ocean bottom. Some of the visitors even opened an account. For though it looked for all the world like a cocktail lounge, the room was the newest branch of Lebanon's Intra Bank. "Nobody's wandered in and asked for a drink yet," said jubilant Intra Bank Founder Yusuf Bedas, 50, adding, "Conservative banks belong to the past...
Last week the Marienbad game was popping up at cocktail parties (with colored toothpicks), on commuter trains (with paper matches), in offices (paper clips) and in bars (with swizzle sticks). Only two can play, but any number can kibitz-and everyone, it seems, has a system for duplicating "X's" talent for winning...
Last week, in his headquarters near Taipei, Dr. Hu Shih, 70, presided at a cocktail party in honor of new Academia fellows. Suddenly, he collapsed and died of a heart attack. His death severed one of the notable links between his present-day, divided nation and the hopeful, revolutionary years of a half-century ago when Sun Yat-sen founded the Republic of China. Like his country, Hu Shih's own family was split: one son is on the Communist mainland, another in the U.S. For his many friends, Dr. Hu Shih's epitaph could be taken from...
...Friday evening, the Young Democrats will host a cocktail party at the Dodge Hotel for 35 Congressmen and officials. Most of the guests will be Harvard alumni...