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...Iran Air's inaugural nonstop flight from New York to Tehran, Taylor came playing the role of temperamental tourist. On arrival she sent Tehran police in search of a missing hand-carried package. Rumored to be a jewelry box, it turned out to be some Glenfiddich pure malt scotch. Then came a minor row at her hotel when she found her accommodations were not the royal suite she expected, and more trouble when she passed up several social functions. By the time she had taken some photos for the family album and finished her ten-day visit...
Sipping from a Scotch-and-water on the table before him, the party chief fielded questions from the audience for three solid hours. It was a virtuoso political performance if only for its stamina. "Cultural expression must be guaranteed absolutely," he told a high school teacher who asked him how the party felt about intellectual freedom. Answering questions from an actress, a magistrate, several soldiers, and representatives of minor political parties, Berlinguer ran the gamut of the Communists' positions. Repeatedly, he stressed their new proposal for a government of "broad democratic unity...
...most-polluted crew member" distinction went to a Mower resident who could not recall his name. His raft, the "Detente," had sunk after 20 feet and he had spent the rest of the race consuming an entire bottle of Scotch...
...Gannon and David Gergen; Haldeman Aide Lawrence Higby; Telecommunications Director Clay Whitehead; National Security Aide Brent Scowcroft; and Domestic Adviser Kenneth Cole Jr. An outside possibility is John Sears, who retained excellent White House sources after his departure as a Nixon counsel in 1969, and whose cigarette-smoking and Scotch-drinking habits, while common enough, correspond to those attributed to Deep Throat...
...first stop, at 7 a.m., was the studios of television station WHEC, where Eddie Meath, a local talk-show personality, asked if Carter used pep pills to keep going. Carter, a Baptist deacon who has sworn off even his occasional Scotch-and-soda during the campaign, smiled and said no. By 9:15, he had met with a group of would-be New York delegates in the Genesee Room of the Americana Hotel, talked with local civic leaders in the Corinthian Room, addressed a $10-a-plate breakfast in the main ballroom (he netted $500) and convened a press conference...