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...official guest quarters. The Georgians were undemanding guests, going their own way from their farmerly rising at 6 a.m. and making only one special request: they asked for dinner one night on 15 minutes' notice. The staff, trained to fulfill the whims of princes and potentates, whisked filet of beef onto a table formally laid for twelve. Half of Washington would have crawled over broken glass to dine with a President-elect, but the Carters simply called in some wide-eyed young staffers to enjoy the meal...
...floundering Celtics will attempt to filet the Denver Nuggets on Friday night. The Celtics are playing without Dave Cowens, the soul of their team, while the Nuggets are being lead through ranks of the Midwest Division by David Thompson...
...fond, forgiving tribute to the nation that rejected monarchy 200 years ago, nine of Europe's ten reigning families will have visited the U.S. by year's end. Preparing for one of the biggest convergences of royalty since the days when regal retinues descended on Paris or Vienna for filet Empire, monarchs in palaces from Copenhagen's Amalienborg to Madrid's Zarzuela are brushing up on such transatlantic lore as Queen Elizabeth's relationship to George Washington (second cousin seven times removed) and the name of U.S.S. Monitor's designer (Swedish-born John Ericsson)?or on the nuances...
...overly grand view by those same jets that bring them so swiftly. They soon are dumped back into the realities of Detroit and New York. But the memories mingle and linger: supreme of pheasant smitane, Rockefeller, Harriman, Dillon, chestnut mousse, Bob Stack, Nanette Fabray, De La Renta, Alsop, filet of salmon in aspic, Cronkite, Swearingen, Humphrey, Schramsberg blanc de noir, Auchincloss. Watching from the dim corners of the old Decatur House on Lafayette Square, where the ladies went for tea, or inside the stately Anderson House, where Sadat the next day returned the White House favors with a dinner...
...given by Kissinger and his wife Nancy. The site of the feast was Hillwood, the verdant 25-acre estate bequeathed to the Government by the late Marjorie Merriweather Post. A huge green-and-white-striped tent was hung with May baskets filled with tulips. Inside, guests lunched on gazpacho, filet of beef, and lime sherbet heaped with fresh strawberries. The Robert Mc-Namaras, the William F. Buckleys, the David Brinkleys and Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits, among others, heard Kissinger laud his guest as a great world leader...