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...Leonard Marks, wife of L.B.J.'s Information Agency chief, attended a bridge luncheon with eleven other women in fashionable Cleveland Park. In the middle of it, two men invaded the house, tied up hostess and guests, and made off with their purses and jewelry. - Two thieves with a sense of timing strolled into the Internal Revenue Service headquarters and, with the assistance of a gun, claimed a "deduction" of nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CITY: TERROR IN WASHINGTON | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...French. Stories appeared in the generally pro-Gaullist Le Figaro and France-Soir hinting that the French had offered Britain a new chance to demonstrate a firm commitment to Europe, only to have their overture rejected. Furiously, Whitehall put its side of the story on record. At a luncheon in Paris on Feb. 4 with Britain's Ambassador to France, Christopher Soames, an avid pro-European who is Winston Churchill's son-in-law, De Gaulle-according to the British account-proposed that the two countries should have a summit meeting to talk over replacing the Common Market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Once More, De Gaulle v. Britain | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

...first luncheon in the White House State Dining Room since the Inauguration, and it was in honor of the ladies of the press. Pat Nixon had arranged the room with small tables seating ten each; centerpieces were Jackie Kennedy's vermeil baskets spilling out fresh garden flowers; the china was Lady Bird's eagle and state-flowers design. And just as the guests prepared to nibble their way through delicate chicken crepes and hearts-of-palm salad, who should show up but the President himself. "Just in time to cool our luncheon," quipped Pat, as her husband showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 28, 1969 | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

After the two-day meetings we took a half day vacation (which included a group of us being thrown out of the Bow $ Arrow Restaurant on the main highway into Atlanta. We tried to take advantage of their all-you-can-eat-for-1.75 Luncheon Buffet Special. Johnson says I have to serve you but that don't mean you can go through that buffet line."). So with sunny Atlanta behind me, I continued to Tougalo, Miss. to begin to select the Students who would be going to California, Oregon, and Washington to attend college...

Author: By James Q. Wilson, | Title: FOCUS in Perspective: Between Shadow and Act | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...strictly soul," is jammed to the rafters each night with customers-90% of them white- dining with apparent gusto on such soul specialties as barbecued ribs and yams. Melvin's, a soul-food place in the heart of Boston's department-store district, is a popular luncheon spot for shoppers and a favorite meeting place for professional athletes, both black and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Eating Like Soul Brothers | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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