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...British politics, had just put out a book titled Amid These Storms about the unhappy drift of the democracies. Adolf Hitler was in the vestibules of German power and would pre-empt the inner sanctum come January of the next year. Joseph Stalin had the Soviet state in the palm of his hand. In sum, all the leaders who would contrive the shape of the midcentury world were now on stage -but little noticed. But the agonized present was enough for the American mind. The country's main concern was to stay afloat, if possible, and to get ahead...
...issued a "call to the trenches" for his followers. They became so stirred as initial results came in on election night that a large crowd marched on the Roberto Clemente Coliseum, where the ballots were counted. They threw rocks at police and at cars displaying the N.P.P.'s palm tree emblems and burned an effigy of Romero. Riot squads were needed to restore order...
...more than that. The banker's daughter set herself to mastering the mysteries of commercial law and deal making just as, earlier, she had wrestled with the exotic exigencies of John Cage. She met the attorneys and the accountants; she supervised the buying up of property in Palm Beach, Fla., Cold Spring Harbor, an exclusive enclave on Long Island, and in upstate New York. When the Lennons decided to make another album earlier this year, it was Ono who called Record Executive David Geffen and worked out the deal...
Tentatively titled Rise and Shine, the show was meant to be a potpourri of news, weather, entertainment, helpful hints and the time. In a burst of enthusiasm Weaver later added: "Seven to 9 a.m. will be the Sun Valley, Palm Springs and Miami Beach of TV." With Weaver's memos fluttering like banners before it, the show, renamed the Today show, went...
This was no White House punch-and-go reception, no pneumatic-chicken campaign dinner. To honor Betty and Gerald Ford on their 32nd anniversary, some friends in Palm Springs sprang for something palmier. There was a formal dinner for 320, dancing and additional entertainment from a few talented guests: Bob Hope, Frank Sinatra, Phyllis Diller, Pearl Bailey and Tony Orlando (who tied yet another ribbon round that old oaken tune). "This is an exceptional night, a tremendous evening in the lives of Jerry and Betty Ford," said the former President and incumbent romantic. "We are more in love today than...