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Meeting No. 2. From Nixon's hideaway, Dirksen strolled over to Mundt's office, where he found Joe McCarthy, Said Dirksen: "Joe, would you sit down and talk it over? There is nothing to lose." It took some persuading to break; down the obdurate McCarthy, but at; length he agreed. Mundt phoned Stevens, suggesting lunch the next day. Stevens assented−and he made the fantastic mistake of taking literally Mundt's request, not to tell "anyone" about the date...
...guest. When the blowouts were staged at the Lower California ranch, pretty Hollywood companions were also near at hand. In the end, the pace grew so dizzy that the President became involved in a notable indiscretion. Just after his retirement from office, he took off from his Lower California hideaway with a party including Leonora Amar, his Brazilian actress friend, for a week in Paris that was fully reported in Mexico, and, some Mexicans say, grievously dented his political influence...
Died. Carl Ritter, 83, urbane hotelman-host to six decades of European kings and U.S. millionaires; in his plush Park Hotel at Homburg, Germany. Proud owner of the world's most fashionable hideaway from its opening in 1883 until the outbreak of World War I, Host Ritter toured the capitals of Europe recruiting royal guests (e.g., Kaiser Wilhelm II, Britain's Edward VII, Russia's Czar Alexander III). The 150-room Park Hotel became a billet for victorious U.S. Army brass (including Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Lucius Clay) after World War II, last year returned to Ritter...
...States as they prepared to sail for a summer's holiday in France. No, said the Duke, he would not see the coronation of his niece. They were on their way to Paris before slipping down to Versailles, where they are converting an old mill into a suburban hideaway...
...telling exactly what had caused the attack-although it seemed likely it was set off by the savory, highly spiced bass dish the President ate for lunch-but he suffered sharp abdominal pain, and slept little. Next morning, when Mamie bade him an anxious goodbye at their Augusta hideaway (the green-shuttered, three-room Bobby Jones cottage) he was running a slight (100°) fever...