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...Gorey found Pepper's strength and stamina astonishing. "In one of the speeches I covered," Gorey recalls, "Pepper said that old people want to be treated like people. A corollary belief apparently is that he wants to act like people. One day, en route to a Miami luncheon where he was to be honored, we walked through the garage of his condominium and into his large Lincoln automobile. Surveying the cramped space and the huge guzzler, I thought: He'll never be able to maneuver it out of here. He did, though. But the engine was sputtering...
...after the election, Washington was host at a unity luncheon. He was flanked by the two rivals he had defeated in the Democratic primary last February: Jane Byrne, the departing mayor, and Richard Daley, son of the legendary boss. Bernard Epton, last Tuesday's Republican loser, skulked off to Florida, leaving his brother to fill in at the lunch. Epton's lack of grace seemed to diminish rather than heighten the tensions: at that moment, it was hard to argue that the better man had lost...
Hoisting high their glasses of Harp Lager, Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill hailed St. Patrick's Day at a luncheon in the Speaker's lair on Capitol Hill. But the tableau of bipartisan spirits, which reflected the compromises that have been attained so far on Social Security and a $5 billion jobs program, may be the last symbolic display of unity for a while. Beneath the blarney was brewing what could turn out to be a bloody partisan battle. After the lunch was over, the House Budget Committee passed a plan designed by the Democratic leadership...
...Britons had asked to be served typical California food onshore. That explains, for instance, the ultrahip luncheon salad planned at the Los Angeles Music Center: red lettuce leaves crammed with pieces of pink grape fruit, strawberries, avocado and exquisite Enoki mushrooms. Explained Caterer Nicole Cottrell: "We couldn't serve a tiny bird because it could shoot across her plate...
...House subcommittees looking into her management of the agency's hazardous-waste program. In another bizarre twist, she sent her appointment calendars, which she had resisted giving to the House subcommittees that had subpoenaed them, to a Senate committee that had never requested them. The calendars, listing numerous luncheon and dinner dates with representatives of chemical companies she regulated but very few with environmental lobbyists, buttressed charges that she had a business bias. By letting the representatives pay for her meals, Lavelle may have violated agency regulations, according...