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...evening of March 5, 1968, was a big occasion at Cornell University Medical College on Manhattan's East Side. A world celebrity was appearing, and hundreds of medical students wanted to hear him. Scores of them rushed across the street for a quick bite at the dormitory snack bar, and many of them ordered hamburgers. In normal times, no matter how a burger is ordered at the snack bar, it always turns out rare. That night, under the sudden pressure of short-order business, the hamburgers were just about raw. And within two weeks, five of the students came...
...crashers, 250 members of the mounted Guarda Nacional Republicana were on hand at the Quinta do Vinagre: inside, 200 blue-liveried servants passed around flutes of champagne and a midnight snack of lobster salad. All night, the local Portuguese crowded to get a closer look at Gina Lollobrigida in a plunging pink ballgown, the Begum Aga Khan's colossal diamond necklace and Sukarno's ex-wife Ratna Sari Dewi in a tight red gown. Someone remembered that it was Henry Ford II's 51st birthday, and everyone sang "Happy Birthday, dear Henry," while he blew...
...play's end, a man and a woman-who have seemed to be members of the audience-sedately remove all their clothes and saunter behind the curtain at the rear of the stage. After one performance, the woman came up for a snack in the cafe restaurant...
Father Damien's own resolution of the risks was in favor of the transplant, which he received May 12. Last week, building himself up on a gourmand's menu of pepper steak and Beaujolais, with a midnight snack of lamb chops among his five daily meals, he was busy correcting the proofs of his latest work-on St. Thomas Aquinas, who, says Father Damien, also believed that individual conscience, in individual circumstance, could and must override other rules in order to refer to the unwritten...
...Sons John, 44, president of the family firm, Gerald, 32, Walter, 36, Robert, 40, and William, 42. With a portfolio of some 30 subsidiaries in such varied fields as real estate, insurance, and turkey farming to consider, the agenda often runs right through lunch, dinner and a midnight snack...