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...propose a toast. "Before I start, I would like to first congratulate Mrs. Reagan for the new china, which is very elegant and very beautiful." Mubarak, in his diplomatic way, was referring of course to Nancy Reagan's celebrated $209,508, 220-place, 4,372-piece set of Lenox china, paid for last year by the Maryland-based Knapp Foundation. Used for the first time last week, the new dinner service, with a raised presidential gold seal in the center of the plates and a red-and-gold lattice border, was accompanied by Morgantown crystal from the Kennedy White...
...White House china, it should be noted that an American company, Lenox, in constant competition with fine china manufacturers overseas, received a hefty order, thereby helping the economy. Further, critics who decry the tax deductions do not acknowledge that private individuals were paying to decorate the White House. The excused tax portion was going directly to a good cause without the usual mishandling...
Besides forcing their bodies to perform beyond their capabilities, many people have the Spartan belief that exercise will do no good unless it is pursued until the body aches. Says Gilbert Gleim of Lenox Hill Hospital's Institute of Sports Medicine in Manhattan: "If you're training to be healthy, exercise should never hurt." A few simple precautions, sports specialists point out, can prevent many injuries. Choose an appropriate sport for your weight and body build and always do warming-up and cooling-down exercises...
...infrequent American appearances occurred earlier this month at the Tanglewood festival in Lenox, Mass...
...extraordinary talent for the exposition of superficial detail. Even for a book of over 600 pages, the amount of unnecessary information he includes is often astounding. In addition to narrating events in Hawthorne's life, for example, Mellow frequently describes exactly what Hawthorne wore. During cold winter mornings in Lenox, Mellow reveals, the author sat in his study wearing an old purple dressing gown made by his wife Sophia. Hawthorne's wardrobe also had its formal side, we discover, although at one time he refused to wear "the white muslin cravat then in fashion." Mellow provides similarly telling details about...