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...jurors than the defendants. The jurors were busy Christmas shopping last week-accompanied by U.S. deputy marshals, who went along to make certain that a store clerk did not offer a stray remark about the trial. The jurors have been staying in Washington's unpretentious Midtown Motor Inn since their swearing-in Oct. 11, leading peculiarly insulated lives as temporary wards of the Government...
Thus, talking of party unity, Alabama Governor George Wallace held court in his suite at the Holiday Inn, receiving visits from a dozen state delegations and some 20 Congressmen. Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who is due to announce his candidacy this week, expertly worked the lobbies, smiling his down-home peanut-farmer grin, and Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a millionaire, threw the biggest blast: a cocktail party attended by 4,000 people...
...combines a lot of plain fun with an attack directed equally at self-willed, Nietzchian types and the principled English. It's about Napoleon right at the period of his life when his military ventures against Austria were winning him acclaim back home. The setting is a small Italian inn, and Bonaparte has just won the battle of Lodi. He's awaiting more information both from the field and from Paris and at the start, anyway, the play has potential for getting very serious. It is only when his courier walks on--an impudent, bumbling lieutenant--that the play develops...
...Brink's armored car. To allow a group of Massachusetts scuba buffs to play under water, the company devised a waterproof set; the game lasted 11 hours. One of the more bizarre marathons occurred at Torrance, Calif., where twelve enthusiasts had their ups and downs in a Holiday Inn elevator for 148 hours...
Steve Williams of Adams House won first prize in the first-ever Poland Springs Inn Scrabble Tournament at Poland Springs, Maine, this past weekend...