Word: kaffeeklatsches
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Most had seen him only fleetingly before-perhaps at a campaign kaffeeklatsch or making a quick stump speech in the primaries. Only last week did hundreds of delegates get then-first close look at Candidate Carter as he moved from parties to meetings of state delegations to the convention hall on the climactic night. Some diehard opponents continued to resent what they feel is Carter's insensitivity to issues that burn them. But to the majority, he came across as more magnanimous than he had been during the primaries, and as capable and, perhaps most important, open-minded...
ILLINOIS CONGRESSMAN EDWARD DERWINSKI. Making his way through the 10° cold from service club to kaffeeklatsch, the friendly and hefty (6 ft. 3 in., 235 Ibs.) Republican Congressman quickly learned that his constituents were worried, angry and frustrated over one basic issue: the energy crisis...
Assembled for a kaffeeklatsch on Barbara Walters' syndicated television show Not for Women Only were three bestselling authors and their analyst. Jacqueline Susann (Once Is Not Enough), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Breakfast of Champions), Alex Comfort (The Joy of Sex) and New York Times Book Reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt participated in what turned out to be a brisk round of alternate back-patting and oneupmanship. Susann gushed to Vonnegut, who replaced her at the top of the lists: "I'm your No. 1 fan. People expect us to be enemies. We're not." Lehmann-Haupt reminded the authors...
...continents for 16 years, but the last place she expected to be the other day was in a Bayonne, N.J., brassiere factory. When Eleanor McGovern chose that unlikely spot to hustle votes for Husband George, Angelo and other reporters were on hand. Politics has obviously changed since the genteel kaffeeklatsch campaigning that most political wives used to practice, and the jet-paced public styles of Pat Nixon and Eleanor McGovern are at the heart of this week's cover story...
...Liberation advocate, Susan received a B.A. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin and went on to a year of graduate study in history. In a single day last week she managed to open a campaign headquarters, speak before two college audiences, and field questions at a kaffeeklatsch...