Word: preluncheon
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...indulgences, is measurably less dolce. There is no dearth of luxurious living at many of the traditional haunts of wealth-from the shim mering playgrounds of Sardinia's Costa Smeralda to Rome's exclusive men's club, Circolo della Caccia, where last week as usual the preluncheon aperitifs were being served by waiters dressed in white stockings, blue knee breeches and silver-buttoned coats...
Ford smiled and waved at the crowd as he entered the St. Francis at 11:25 a.m. At a jammed preluncheon cocktail reception for Ford, invited guests were startled by the apparent lack of security precautions. They flashed their tickets but underwent no check against guest lists, no opening of purses or X-raying of briefcases. "There's more security on an airliner than there was for the President at that moment," recalled John Chase, a Transamerica Corp. vice president. A perspiring Ford pushed through the milling guests...
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