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Aware of the limitations of Dwight, Oughton sent Diana off to Madeira School in Greenway, Va., and Bryn Mawr. She spent her junior year at the University of Munich. It was at Bryn Mawr that Diana first showed an interest in social problems. Like many collegians, she was active in voter registration and tutored junior high school students. At night she would go by train to Philadelphia, where for two years she tutored two ghetto boys. Said Carol: "I remember how incredulous Diana was that a seventh-or eighth-grade child couldn't read, didn't even know...
EUGENE L. MADEIRA Assistant Pastor...
Even more unusual was a unique flagon of Canary wine, vintage 1740. Spared any sign of ullage (loss from leakage or evaporation) in the 227 years since the dry white wine, similar to a Madeira, was bottled on the island of Tenerife, it is almost the sole survivor of its epoch. But is it any good? Its new owner, Professional Gourmet Maurice C. Dreicer of New York, who paid $518 for his bottle of Canary-highest price ever for a single bottle of wine-is in no mood to put it to the test himself. He plans, instead, to carry...
...view luxury hotels in Praia da Rocha and Portimào. The beaches and water are superb, the prices are reasonable, and there is a new 18-hole golf course, which will host this year's European Ladies championship. Another "find" this year will be the island of Madeira, 535 miles southwest of Lisbon; it has always had splendid accommodations, but its new airport opened 18 months ago, and the new accessibility guarantees new popularity. Portugal's biggest draw of the season will be the tiny village of Fatima, which is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Virgin...
...principle that "the shortest distance between a pending bill and a Congressman's aye is through his stomach," he installed a French chef in his kitchen and invited Washington's notables. He was a master of the graduated political gift; Presidents occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck. Ward never arm-twisted guests or mentioned his interests, but when a bill of his reached the floor, former tablemates would receive a note: "This is my little lamb. Be good." Though he helped others make...