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Confirmed as the new U.S. Ambassador to Ireland was Millionaire Contractor Matthew H. McCloskey, 69, a twinkly old brogan from Philadelphia who, as longtime Democratic National Committee treasurer, demonstrated his fund-raising legerdemain by staging the first $100-a-plate dinner in 1934. His potluck for politics held good when the Senate rejected a Republican attempt, 62-30, to return the nomination over some alleged finagling in the 1946 purchase of a Government-surplus shipyard by Entrepreneur Louis Wolfson. But a regular Irish stew may await McCloskey on the Quid Sod. Demonstrating his Gaelic at a Washington dinner, he bellowed...
...driver and his wife gazed appreciatively at the neat flower beds and the swimming pool, the recreation hall and the nine-hole putting green, the croquet court and the three shuffleboard courts. The weekly schedule of activities, posted by the "sunshine girl" or social director, revealed plans for potluck dinner, pinochle games, bridge night, dancing, and classes in ceramics and art. The well-fitted trailers-preferably called mobile homes-were leashed to water lines and TV lines, phone lines and plumbing lines (no clotheslines, thanks to built-in washers and dryers). Most of them were attached to cabanas and ramadas...
...stood a gleaming selection of U.S. cars (with prices posted), it was housed beneath the gossamer translucence of one of Designer Buckminster Fuller's nylon-covered geodesic domes, a silvery half-grapefruit rising above the fair grounds a full 50 feet. Forced for the first time to take potluck instead of arrogantly demanding the choicest location, the Russians' exhibit stood glumly at the far end of the grounds, and attracted thousands fewer. Even those who came stared apathetically at the cans of "Khrushchev corn," the cream-colored Volga car with its white-walled tires so obviously painted...
...trial, and in seclusion on the farm, Vernon Richter cocked his ear at the sound of tractors, looked out to find 30 men with 20 tractors arriving from nearby farms. While his neighbors helped him plow 100 acres and seed them with corn and soybeans, 15 women spread a potluck lunch, had a friendly good time. The plowing done, Richter tried to thank his departing neighbors, but broke down. Said Farmer Harold Hearstad: "He's a nice fellow and a good worker. He just worked too hard...
When twice-divorced Angie Duke be came a Roman Catholic and married the beautiful granddaughter of a Spanish mar quis, their delight with "El Duque" was complete. It was not unusual for President Oscar Osorio himself to drive up unannounced to the embassy and take potluck luncheon with the Dukes...