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...mayor was vacationing at a secret hideaway last week, recuperating from an ulcer attack. The president of the school board was fined $115 in court for flashing his bare bottom from a car window. The city council president and five other councilmen have been indicted on charges of accepting kickbacks from carnival operators. The city faces bankruptcy and can only pay its policemen for another week...
...imagine a conference site more remote from the tensions of the Middle East than Camp David, a 143-acre aerie perched atop a 1,880-ft. hill in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, 75 miles northwest of the capital. Franklin Roosevelt was so fond of sneaking off to his hideaway that he called it Shangri-La. There he and Winston Churchill planned Dday. Dwight Eisenhower changed the name of the retreat to that of his grandson David, and the new name later became synonymous with a thawing of the cold war. "The spirit of Camp David" derived from the 1959 summit...
Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was lounging beside the pool of his government hideaway near Tel Aviv one morning last week when he received an urgent call from his Foreign Minister, Moshe Dayan. Deputy Premier Yigael Yadin had called a special Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. Its purpose: to head off a crisis that was threatening to disrupt Jimmy Carter's plan for a meeting at Camp David between Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early September...
...President's staff, for advice about movies to see and books to read. But despite this intimacy, Rafshoon is based not in the White House but across the street in the Old Executive Office Building, in the spacious quarters that were once Richard Nixon's hideaway study...
...structure is clumsy. In addition to the narration and flashbacks within flashbacks, Rice introduces an irrelevant character just to plug his best song (Another Suitcase in Another Hall). That sort of contrivance hasn't been seen in a musical since Carol Haney sang Hernando's Hideaway in The Pajama Game...