Word: entertainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That at least would prove he exists. For today, Howard Hughes is surrounded by such mystification that some entertain the ultimate theory: he is dead, a phantom evoked and impersonated by a band of conspirators in order to keep his holdings together. If nothing else, this conjecture is an index of how the invisible and difficult man stirs fantasies...
...main tentacle of what he calls a "political communications octopus," the fight can take strange turns. Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier claimed to be so incensed over some fiddling with his column in the afternoon Journal that he canceled the weekly series and announced that he would no longer entertain press-conference questions from any representatives of the Journal Co. That includes the only other major newspaper in town, the morning Sentinel, and the WTMJ radio-TV stations...
...Hope buys back American POWs from North Vietnam in exchange for two Boeing 747s (with coach lounge and piano bar), 500 crates of Gatorade and Dick Hyland. On opposite page, HOPE, JILL ST. JOHN, HENRY KISSINGER, DANIEL ELLSBERG and JULIE NIXON EISENHOWER board plane on way to entertain U.S. troops in Dacca...
...that others have. In recent months, she has grown increasingly impatient with the public's insatiable curiosity about her. "Joan is not basically an outgoing person," says Kathy Beatty. And Joan admits that despite the starry existence people imagine she leads, "my life is rather lonely. When we entertain, it's just a few for dinner. And once in a while a bigger buffet-usually after a concert." There are also long hours spent presiding over family affairs. The Kennedy home in suburban McLean, Va., is superbly managed by a French cook, a governess, a social secretary...
...help with her career, have virtually resumed the normal, amiable chaos of their early life together. They have a nine-room apartment overlooking Manhattan's Central Park ("Isaac Stern always says he lives on top of Beverly Sills, because he's on a floor above us"). There they entertain (Peter is a graduate of the Cordon Bleu cooking school), play bridge (Peter is a tournament champion) or just relax (Beverly can do a crossword puzzle in 20 minutes...