Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Percy. So does Rockefeller, who last year renounced presidential ambitions "forever." But as one G.O.P. leader observed recently, "Nobody ever made a Sherman-like statement except Sherman," and all three men would almost certainly accept the nomination. As Washington newsmen put it during last month's Gridiron Club dinner, in a song that was written with Rocky in mind but applies to all the naysayers...
...next night, during a dinner at the White House, including the Robert Kennedys, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, there was "puckish horseplay" as the mourners recoiled from shock. Everyone knew that Ethel Kennedy often wore a wig; during the meal, it was "snatched off and passed from head to head, winding up . . .on the slick pate of the Secretary of Defense...
Broadway Producer Alexander Cohen, 46, loves a good bash. Once he staged a carnival in the heart of the theater district and invited half of the Eastern seaboard. "I figure," he says, "why take your wife to dinner when you can just as easily have 40 guests...
Time was when Norris Bostwick, a 39-year-old New York restaurant cashier, liked to polish off ten hot dogs before dinner. He weighed 399 lbs. and was rejected by every girl he met, as well as by the U.S. Army. Walking up one flight of stairs, he recalls, was a major effort, exiting from a cab became a three-minute ordeal. Now life is considerably lighter and brighter for Bostwick: in ten months he has shed 170 lbs. How? By belonging to Weight Watchers Inc., an organization that is making such dramatic reductions commonplace...
...common consent, no one toils harder for the McDonnell team than Mr. Mac himself. Aside from an occasional round of golf (he is lucky to break 100), his relaxation consists of a nap after lunch and two drinks before a late dinner with his second wife, the former Mrs. Priscilla Brush Forney. After the Jell-O and Sanka, Mr. Mac retreats to his den to dip into his briefcase until midnight. McDonnell's sons, J. S. Ill, 31, and John Finney, 29, both hold mid-bracket executive jobs in McDonnell's space center. They are the children of his first...