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This was never so much in evidence as at the McGovern Day Gala Wednesday night at the Commonwealth Armory. The crowd was reminiscent of the scene at Woods Hole two years ago. These were the idealists, for whom politics meant lofty discussion of noble ideals, rather than the nitty-gritty of organizational campaigning...
Utah, from Corvallis, Ore., to Washington, D.C. Prior to its visit to the U.S., the Royal Philharmonic will have presented four gala TIME-LIFE concerts at Festival Hall in London. Rudolf Kempe is the conductor, assisted by Lawrence Foster. The tour is under the management of Impresario Kazuko Hillyer...
...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...