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...night, they slept roped to the side of the mountain, inside a Harding-designed hammock-tent that was suspended from several pitons. They usually climbed from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m., and during the entire ordeal found only three ledges wide enough to stand on. There were two falls during the ascent: Harding cut his hands and legs after a piton gave way; Caldwell took a similar spill, "slithering down like a ride in an amusement park." Both men were in good condition...
...dinner at her handsome Georgetown house is a prize second only to dinner at the White House, and her guest list is guaranteed to be more stimulating. At a party she threw to celebrate Columnist Joseph Alsop's 60th birthday, 140 guests sat down to dine under a tent two stories high. At her first party last month for Lady Hartwell (whose husband runs London's Daily Telegraph), Kay Graham threw Social Lion Henry Kissinger into a den of Democrats, including Robert McNamara, Clark Clifford, Averell Harriman and Jack Valenti. At a second Hartwell party, the guests included Chief Justice...
...warring minorities with no Real, Silent, Middle America, Conservative, Centrist, Liberal or other kind of majority presently operative. There is increasing evidence that the first principle of the old politics, embodied in Roosevelt's New Deal, of putting many different groups, races, religions and regions under one permanent party tent may not work any more...
Eames showed two films and a slide-tape recording as illustrations of a new way of understanding art. Slides of calliope pipes, wagon wheels, tent stakes, to the accompaniment of circus music and tigers' eyes played on three screens as an alternative to a more conventional circus film. At the end of the presentation, Eames showed Tops, the classic film of children's toys which he and his wife Ray produced...
...home at Manshiet al Bakri, a waiting physician ordered an oxygen tent and summoned three specialists for consultation. The diagnosis: massive coronary thrombosis...