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...talked about in his report on the '68 Republican convention. The Aaronsons' two daughters and sons-in-law had rented a couple of large rooms off of the building's glittery lobby: one room for drinking and, as they say in Miami Beach, noshing; the other for a big sit-down dinner of roast beef and string beans and potatoes and cake...
Informal parties are also the rule at the Cleveland Park home of Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, where Ellen, his bright, vibrant wife, cooks and serves sit-down dinners for as many as 14. While her husband is campaigning or lecturing on weekends, Ellen plays tennis, oversees her own small business (Wonderful Weddings, a wedding planning service) and has written a book (One Foot in Washington...
Mann was segregated from the other prisons after his repeated attempts to organize other inmates,. Buckley said. "He was an organizer for trouble. He'd organized black inmates to have a sit-down strike, to light a fire, and do the sorts of things that could endanger the security of the institution...
...Gitter, one of the founding fathers of the Welles, explains the philosophy behind the UCA complex: "From the beginning, Dean and Peter [Peter Jaszi, program director at the Welles], and I felt that the actual presentation of films had been so plastic. We wanted a place where people could sit-down and talk. We've always thought of the Welles as a framework for generating real community feeling...
...least reluctant to discuss it. She has been known to close her TV program by cheerily confiding, "Well, next week I'm going to have a complete retread." Once, when she appeared on camera looking younger and trimmer than usual, she announced that casual sit-down chats with guest stars would be out of the question for the next few days. "I've had three operations on my face and one on my stomach," Dercy says, "and I'll have 20 if necessary. Wherever I droop, I want it taken off. I wasn't born with...