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...Democratic functions; several candidates also gave excellent imitations of persons badly frightened by a picket line. CBS got the message and canceled its "remote" pickups from some 20 locations. The network was thus forced to stay within a restricted area, leaning even more heavily upon the services of an oaken but somewhat weary Walter Cronkite. Despite this, when the early Nielsens came in, they showed CBS ahead by 15% in New York City's viewer vote. In later tallies, NBC came out ahead. "I dunno," said a CBS executive, shaking his head. "Maybe they tuned...
Another minor inaccuracy (I say minor because it has nothing to do with the food but nevertheless shows how bad the reporting was) was the description of the dining rooms. They are not oaken as stated. One is dark stained pine planks, one is painted and one is papered. As to the reference to the "Dubuffet reporductions on the walls," that is just plain laughable in its ignorance. The artist's name happens to be Bernard Buffet, he enjoys some small amount of fame, and the one Buffet we have is an original. It seems the eyes that mistakenly reported...
...Saturday. It's open for dinner until 10 on Sunday. A hostess shows you to the nearest table with a view of Mt. Auburn Street, with its trolleys, parking lot, and Treadway Inn. Passersby peer at you from the sidewalk, through unwashed windows. The three dining rooms are oaken, motel style with Dubuffet reproductions on the wall...
...over the island -or, by extension, his own power -and who obviously has the Greek Cypriots strongly behind him. To budge the archbishop, therefore, Greek Premier George Papadopoulos two weeks ago sent him a three-point "recommendation" so sharp that the normally benign churchman could be heard through stout oaken doors fuming against "a humiliating, unacceptable ultimatum...
...file cabinets and movable pieces of mahogany furniture called TRMs (Task Response Modules). Each TRM contains a closet, a chest of drawers, a bookcase and a built-in desk. In the larger work areas allotted to executives there are such traditional extras as upholstered chairs and round or square oaken tables...