Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was President, the idyllic 26-acre retreat on the Pacific bustled as the Western White House. After he fell from power, it provided an elegant refuge. But Richard Nixon is moving out of his San Clemente estate. Inflation has pushed the upkeep of the twelve-room, Spanish-style villa beyond his pocketbook, and last week he sold it to a group of Orange County businessmen for an undisclosed...
...Oscar Mauzy, the dozen agreed simply to vanish from the 31 -seat state senate, thus blocking any senate action by preventing the necessary quorum of 21. The next morning ten of the Bees (two others simply left the state) began hiding out in a 12-ft. by 20-ft. room in a garage apartment that had only two beds, a shower, a toilet and a sink-and a peephole in the door. Most of the Bees figured that they would be there only a short time until Hobby agreed to drop the bill, but he instead empowered the state...
...holed-up Bees whiled away the time by watching television soap operas, playing cards, studying the rules of the senate and consuming more than $350 worth of liquor and cold food smuggled into their hideaway by trusted assistants. The ill-prepared band soon began to swelter in the small room. They shed their outer clothes, padded around in underwear, and began to get on each other's nerves. Noted Mauzy: "When you get nine egomaniacs together, all nine want to be chief and no one wants to be an Indian...
...lawmen never came close to finding the beehive, despite a statewide all-points bulletin, although they nearly did nail Senator Gene Jones, who had chosen to leave the hideout because he had just sworn off cigarettes and was getting edgy in the smoke-filled room. To avoid the police, Jones was house-hopping around Houston. When a Ranger and another lawman arrived at the place where he was staying, the clean-shaven Jones jumped over a back fence; the police thereupon arrested his mustachioed brother Clayton and, despite his avowal that he was the wrong man, helicoptered him back...
Even fellow Tories were not above tossing off a quip: "When he comes into a room," joked former Party President Dalton Camp, "Conservatives can't make up their minds whether to stand up or send him out for coffee." Rising will now certainly be in order...