Word: lawford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become the hottest ticket in Boston since the 1978 playoff between the Red Sox and the Yankees in Fenway Park. The present President, Jimmy Carter, was invited, but ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon were not. That was the decision of the Kennedy sisters-Eunice Shriver, Patricia Lawford and Jean Smith; they outvoted Brother Ted, who did not favor the public snub...
...Nixons would have attracted curiosity seekers and destroyed what one blackballer called the ambiance of the building on the corner of Madison Avenue. "Just imagine," she said, "what would happen if the Shah of Iran visited him." For similar reasons, the same fate has befallen Barbra Streisand, Pat Lawford and even dashing Princeton-educated Prince Saud, the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia, who was voted out of a Fifth Avenue flat because of fears of anti-Arab protests...
...lights dim, a suggestive voice booms forth: "We ask your cooperation by not smoking ... anything ... in the theater." Then, amidst the tumble effaces on the various screens, can be seen Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, Peter Lawford, Marlon Brando and John F. Kennedy as President. The gloom of Kennedy's assassination breaks the mood, but not for long, as Ed Sullivan can be seen in 1964 announcing, with a wave of the arm: "Ladies and gentlemen...
...Harris Lawford, president of Bryn Mawr, said the compromise made "substantial new steps towards strengthening the two-college system." The debate was not a question of single-sex education but of improving the two-college system, he said...
...people who attended (at $125 each), there was champagne, roast beef and a demonstration of athletic prowess by a group of accomplished retarded kids, a fashion show, and then fun and games for the regulars. The Clan itself was heavily represented: Jackie O., Eunice Shriver, Pat Lawford, Jean Smith, etc., etc., but the most enchanting of the family were the new generation: Eunice's son and daughter Bobby, 21, and Maria, 20; and Pat's daughter Sydney, 19. As photographers snapped away, Sydney's mom told her: "Don't look too pretty." But what...