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...from business as ; usual in the oak-paneled Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill. From behind the potted palms, the U.S. Navy Commanders' Trio plinked out Indiana, while congressional movers and shakers wreaked havoc on mounds of shrimp, deviled eggs and sliced beef. The occasion: a retirement fete honoring Frances Knight, 72, for 22 years absolute ruler-some said Dragon Lady-of the U.S. Passport Office. A legend of efficiency, she was also a scrappy defender against a large assortment of enemies, including liberals who opposed her militant conservatism and State Department bureaucrats who chafed...
...jazz sets to film screenings. To the delight of children, giant puppets strolled the streets. Free sculpture and art shows blossomed at scenic and historic sites around the city. Charleston's restaurants were ready with that minor art form known as low-country cooking: she-crab soup, sauteed shrimp, fried oysters, Limehouse sausage...
Groaning Buffets. The Cuban welcome could hardly have been warmer. There were frozen daiquiris at the airport and buffets groaning with fresh lobster, shrimp, glazed red snapper and other delicacies that ordinary Cubans seldom see. Premier Fidel Castro himself showed up to chat, joke and sign autographs for the businessmen...
...Hitch. Washington took care to get foreign fishing nations to sign prior agreements to abide by the 200-mile U.S. limit. They could scarcely object because most had enacted 200-mile limits of their own, much to the discomfort of U.S. fishermen who net shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico and tuna in the Pacific off Ecuador and Peru...
...given but one year--call it 1976--in which to work, the all-new admissions team managed to rebuild Radcliffe's sweat squads faster than it takes Andy Cadiff to get seconds on shrimp curry...