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...Bill Braman, a carpet wholesaler from Minneapolis, and his wife Ginny have their 12-ft. bamboo pole set up, aflutter with a weathered Vikings pennant. It marks their "Outside Stadium Club"-a takeoff on the posh inside Stadium Club for wealthy ticket holders. "Only difference," says Ginny, "is that they have a toilet and we don't." The Bramans, pioneers of Minnesota tailgating, have been throwing parties since 1961. They are traditionalists with rules for their party: no gambling, no chewing out the players after a bad game, no hard liquor. The restrictions do not deter Vikings players from...
Here is President James Garfield, for instance, well before he was shot down, dining at the posh New York restaurant of the gilded age, Delmonico...
...first MESBlCs, such as the Arcata Investment Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., seem to have been confused about the difference between an investment loan and a charitable donation. Arcata folded in 1972, after nearly half of the businesses it had funded-including such risky ventures as a posh restaurant in the East Palo Alto ghetto-closed down...
...weeks ago, Public Works Under Secretary Jorge Horacio Zubiri, a Cámpora appointee, was actually forced to resign by maintenance work ers who invaded his office (he was later "reinstated" by the government). Peronist youths went to the American school in Buenos Aires' posh foreign community to announce a project to nationalize...
...spun sugar. Sidney Poitier, who also directed, stars as a brilliant physician who deserted a booming private practice in Boston to work on a ghetto medicine program in Washington, D.C. When the widowed doctor first appears in the film, he is on vacation in London, living at a posh hotel in a style suitable to a vice roy. He falls in love with a lovely, intelligent young woman (Esther Anderson), whose uncle is an ambassador of a newly emergent African state. She is being devoured from within by sicklecell anemia, which happens to be the doctor's specialty...