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That night the captains stayed with the University of Miami team at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob McClelland, the owners of a plush April Sound condominium. Spence returned the Texan hospitality by performing a series of bawdy Harvard fight songs assisted by the megaphone and pom-poms belong to the McClelland daughters, who are high school cheerleaders...
Declaring himself an "independent Marxist," Reed settled in a plush lakeside villa in East Berlin in 1973 and married an East German; they are now divorced. He has kept his American citizenship and periodically revisited the U.S. He came to Minnesota to promote El Cantor, a movie about a Chilean singer who Reed claims was tortured to death after the fall of Marxist President Salvador Allende...
...Yankees, meanwhile, were busy belting baseballs to every part of plush Royals Stadium. After surviving first inning singles by Thurman Munson and Jackson when Graig Nettles' 400-foot drive to deep center was caught, Leonard promptly got himself in trouble in the second by serving up a curveball that the black bat of Roy White ripped down the right field line for a double. Monday's hero, Bucky Dent, then singled White home and the Yanks were on their...
Carter himself will occupy the plush Aspen Lodge, which was extravagantly refurbished by Richard Nixon. Begin will stay in Birch house and Sadat in Dogwood, both located about 50 yds. from Aspen Lodge. The guests' "cabins" are similar, each with two large bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large sitting room with a fireplace. Cooks at Aspen Lodge are on 24-hr, call to prepare any dish the guests order, and they have a list of the two visitors' gastronomic favorites. Sadat, nonetheless, is bringing his own chef; the Egyptian leader is a health buff who carefully watches his diet. Kosher...
...soldiers never die. They just fade away," MacArthur emotionally told a joint session of Congress when he returned. He did gradually fade away, although he served for a time as chairman of Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) and occupied a plush apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, which he shared with his second wife, Jean, and his son, Arthur. He was not ordinarily given to candor about himself, but a few years before he died in 1964, he gave some indication of what it had been like to be Douglas MacArthur. "My mother put too much pressure...