Word: galas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flocked to the merry Bavarian city by the thousands. They gathered under the spreading elm and oak trees flanking the emerald-green lawns of the Englisher Garten, playing their guitars, smoking hand-crafted cigarettes and generally ignoring what a young Iowa girl called "that silly sports effort." Munich's gala atmosphere has also drawn an older, more pecunious group: the international set, complete with titled leaders. Ensconced in carefully protected Hilton Hotel suites, far removed from the surging street crowds, are Prince Philip, Princess Margaret and their highnesses, Rainier and Grace. Unlike the youthful tourists, however, the beautiful people last...
...seat next to Pat Nixon at a gala fund-raising dinner in Miami Beach for Republicans was assigned to Kenneth H. Dahlberg, Midwest finance chairman of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Graciously, he turned his chair over to Dwayne O. Andreas, a Minneapolis millionaire who earlier this year donated $75,000 to Hubert Humphrey's unsuccessful presidential primary campaign. Since then Andreas had given $25,000 to the Nixon committee-and that, Dahlberg thought, made him a man who ought to sit next to the First Lady. But by week's end both Dahlberg...
...delegates were merely actors in the unsuspenseful drams. Three thousand Young Voters for the President played a crucial supporting role. The powerful elite which steers the Republican Party spent four days directing producing and orchestrating the gala event--gala, this is, if the proper credentials and invitations to lavish afterhours parties were obtainable...
Jittery after a jostling by crowds in Europe, Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis avoided last year's gala opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington and the world premiere of Mass, the work she had asked Leonard Bernstein to write for the occasion. But when Mass was presented again in Washington, she came, smiled brightly through a standing ovation and pronounced the center "beautiful, just beautiful." Next day, on the fourth anniversary of the death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, she made the painful trip to Arlington National Cemetery and stood with tears in her eyes while Kennedy family members took...
...sings Soprano Regina Resnik on one of the year's more remarkable operatic LPs, Highlights from the Metropolitan Opera Gala Honoring Sir Rudolf Bing (DGG, $6.98). The "he" is, of course, Sir Rudolf, the Met's retiring general manager; the "we" refers to Miss Resnik, other Met stars and six conductors who performed their, his and perhaps everybody's favorite arias for 51 hours last April at Bing's formal farewell...