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...Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping failed in his effort in Moscow to end the Sino-Soviet split. When Teng returned to Peking, he was met at the airport by an unprecedented welcoming committee consisting of Mao Tse-tung and virtually every other top official not ill or on out-of-town assignment...
...twist band. At about 6 a.m. the party broke up, but some 65 of the boys and girls chipped in $5 per couple to hire the twist band for three more hours of fun at a big, old, vacant mansion, which the Leases had rented to house the out-of-town stags...
...work that merely shows quality will generally be pushed aside, as producers cater to theater parties and out-of-town buyers. As a result, Broadway's playhouses are little more than oversized brick television sets...
...took them to consume most of his inheritance. After the separation, Hetty moved into a cheap Brooklyn flat with her two children. Sylvia, when she grew old enough, did the cooking; Ned served his mother as a messenger boy, delivering bonds and other securities to Hetty's out-of-town brokers. The richest woman in America bought her children's clothes from an old-clothes dealer. When Ned developed an infection in one leg, Hetty tried to have it treated without charge at a succession of public clinics. The leg finally had to be amputated, and Hetty...
...chat, for thoughtful listening to the presentation of great issues, for seeing and being seen, for meeting and getting met. Many of the guests found the way to the Waldorf paved by a pair of preliminary, ice-breaking get-togethers in the days preceding the key event. For out-of-town visitors who arrived early, TIME Publisher and Mrs. Bernhard Auer held a small, informal cocktail reception at Manhattan's Regency Hotel. The following day, under acres of bright-colored tents, Time Inc. President and Mrs. James A. Linen gave a garden party and buffet dinner at their home...