Word: sitdown
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inauguration dinner parties for the Carter crew. Another bridge builder is Liz Stevens, wife of George Stevens, the director of the American Film Institute; many Carter friends and staffers were at her party for Tom Brokaw, host of NBC's Today show. Other partygivers in Washington, where the sitdown, candlelight dinner still prevails, have duly noted that the Harrimans and the Stevenses both served buffet style, in keeping with the Carter crowd's informal manner...
...instant call on a 707 or Learjet. The salary is $60,000. The executive suite is the grandest in Washington, with half a museum's worth of Early American furniture, sweeping views from a vast eighth-floor terrace, and a chamber that can take 200 for sitdown dinner. It is not the pay and the perks, however, which have hopeful Democrats lining up two abreast to be Henry Kissinger's successor. The office of U.S. Secretary of State is probably the most powerful appointive office in the world. And there were moments when Dr. Kissinger seemed...
...peace we are prepared for territorial compromises." Specifically, as a starter, Rabin suggested the return of the West Bank city of Jericho to Jordan in return for a nonbelligerency pact. He was promptly challenged by religious Jews who marched 5,000 strong into biblical Judea and Samaria for a sitdown strike. The Israeli army managed to hold back all but about 300. One group of religious youths, led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, made their way into a 500-ft. gorge beside an old Turkish aqueduct to squat there until the army or hunger forced them out. "It is our right...
...into gold, is trying to build a new chain of franchised restaurants. They are to be called "Claudia Sanders 'the Colonel's Lady' Dinner Houses"-so named after Sanders' wife, who is said by associates to be "as sweet as the Colonel is cantankerous." The sitdown restaurants will be quite different from the Kentucky Fried Chicken carry-outs that first made Colonel Sanders a household name. For one thing, a patron will be able to buy lobster-if Sanders can sell franchises...
Furor. Interestingly, it was Warner himself who delayed taking any action about the sitdown of the Constellation's crewmen on the San Diego pier, thereby making the Navy seem even more permissive. Zumwalt's staff claims that he was on the point of sending a formal written protest to Warner when the Secretary finally acted and had the men bused off to their trials. Nevertheless it will inevitably be Zumwalt who will be hurt by all the publicity...