Word: darts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story, cement-block building that houses Black & Webster Inc. of Waltham, Mass., nestles in a wooded hollow, unspoiled by the soot of sprawling factories. From his white-marble-top desk, President Peter T. Webster, 41, can watch pheasants dart across the lawn. But the rustic setting is deceptive. Webster and his staff of 83 people, including six engineers and ten highly skilled machinists, turn out such space-age products as orbital riveters and vibratory feeders...
...Richard Nixon often visited. They were joined by 60 friends to usher in the New Year. The next day, the Reagans went to a party at the Eldorado Country Club, where President Dwight D. Eisenhower spent his winters after leaving office. Reagan's hosts were California Tycoons Justin Dart and Jack Wrather; the guests included Attorney General-designate William French Smith, Standard Oil of Indiana Chairman John Swearingen and Comedian Bob Hope...
...Colorado brewer; W. Glenn Campbell, director of Stanford's conservative Hoover Institution; Holmes Tuttle, one of the biggest Ford dealers in California and long a close associate of the President-elect; Anne Armstrong, Gerald Ford's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; Justin Dart of Dart & Kraft, Inc., a multinational food and housewares corporation; Nevada's Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's key man in Washington; and Edwin Meese, Reagan's closest assistant, who will coordinate the shaping of domestic and foreign policy in the new White House...
...shoppers, knowing none of this, remain silent and still until the music fades. Chimes signal the start of the business day, and holiday carols lilt over the sound system. Women who have finished their coffee and turned to the turtlnecks and ties dart toward other departments. And the waitress wheels the cart away...
...home," says Lunden. There is some truth to that, but the home has not always been happy. Former staffers tell stories of intense backbiting. "I've never met so many people hi one place who had so little integrity," recalls one of them. "They had a dart board with a picture on it of Rona Barrett, and they would throw darts at it and make insulting remarks about her. Then when she called, they'd be all sweetness and light." The columnist, a breathless, electronic update of Louella Parsons, Hollywood's gossip queen...