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...Fourth of July garden party in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen led the Soviet Union's top topers, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, to a table laden with Scotch and bourbon. TV crewmen popped a microphone under the nose of Bulganin, who genially obliged with a toast to the American people and the health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets...
...understanding lines (herself a divorcee) were married. He told his new wife frankly: "I think you will be able to be married to me, because you understand that my first love is architecture." Since then, Eero has kept the romance boiling with surprise "I love you'' notes Scotch-taped on the walls. They named their son, now 19 months, Eames, for Eero's old designer buddy, Charles Eames...
First Intimation. Ike had rarely seemed healthier or happier. In white jacket and black tie, he arrived at the Sheraton-Park shortly after 7 p.m., grinned and handshook his way through a reception, sipping at a Scotch-on-the-rocks, then at part of another. His color was ruddy, perhaps higher than usual around the cheekbones. For dinner he skipped the thick soup on the regular menu, had instead a cup of clear consommé, which came more in line with his diet of 1,800 calories a day. He ate a small piece of filet mignon (without the himself...
...Coffee & Scotch. Thereafter, newsmen worked in a swarm around Hagerty's head. He gave 14 press conferences, following virtually all of them with a statement for TV film, plus five radio interviews and two on live TV-and answered innumerable questions by reporters outside the press conferences. Meantime he haunted the doctors, stood attendance on the President's family, kept in close touch with Vice President Nixon and White House Staff Secretary Colonel Andrew Goodpaster. He got home twice, but only to shower and change his clothes. Through the long Friday night vigil, he gulped black coffee, sometimes...
...with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than...