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...social season. Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his Queen Homaira were in town. In their honor, there was to be a black-tie banquet in the Rose Garden - with fireworks, a Marine-drill-squad exhibition, music by some Air Force bagpipers and ice cream souffle for dessert. But it rained that day, and the President moved the affair into the State Dining Room...
...Observed the end of his six-year term as member of the Harvard Board of Over seers with a White House stag dinner for 42 fellow Harvard types, including President Nathan Pusey and Charles A. Coolidge, senior member of the Harvard Corporation. Following cocktails and dinner (dessert: glace académique), the guests made little speeches about the affinity of Harvardmen for the presidency (John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Theodore Roosevelt. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and their host), and Kennedy got up to make a few remarks. As he spoke, there was a thud. There, on the floor of the candlelit...
...look like. The public is a soft touch for reusable packages, such as the vitamin container that is an apothecary jar, the instant coffee jar that becomes a glass pitcher. Portion packaging has also become popular. Campbell Soup has expanded its Swanson TV frozen dinners to include soup and dessert in a single paper-and-foil container. Dow Chemical has developed a packet made of plastic, paper and foil that holds individual portions of butter. But it was left to Allied Chemical to come up with a plastic container shaped like a martini glass. Inside: gin and vermouth...
...remote excitement. When it gets too close, the little girls are sure their all-powerful uncle can wish it away. One night at dinner, there is an air raid that shakes the villa. But Uncle Wilhelm says authoritatively, "Serve the dessert," and the planes fly off. Uncle Wilhelm is Jewish, but his estate is the biggest in the area, and the little girls' only worry about him is that their Catholic schoolmates tell them that he is doomed to hellfire. When retreating German soldiers put up at the villa, the girls are upset that Uncle does not show more...
...those zany rich-girl-marries-chauffeur comedies of the '30s for its plot. To give Ball new bounce, Director David Swift (The Parent Trap] has transferred the action to the Riviera, hustled in a bagful of props: a pink yacht with matching luggage, a custard-cake skyscraper for dessert, a floating baby grand for the pool. But to keep this kind of souffle inflated is primarily up to a bubbly blonde. Hope Lange. She is the chauffeur-chasing American heiress who keeps a sports-car engine in her bedroom, a collection of slinky bizarrities in her closet...