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...official dinner at the White House was given for visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 53, and his wife Suzie, but the principal topic of discussion was china. "President Reagan, Mrs. Reagan, dear friends," said the Egyptian leader, rising to propose a toast. "Before I start, I would like to first congratulate Mrs. Reagan for the new china, which is very elegant and very beautiful." Mubarak, in his diplomatic way, was referring of course to Nancy Reagan's celebrated $209,508, 220-place, 4,372-piece set of Lenox china, paid for last year by the Maryland-based Knapp Foundation...
...affection and pride swept through the crowd." Reagan obliquely compared Roosevelt with himself; he praised the American ability to "sense when things have gone too far, when the time has come to make fundamental changes. Franklin Roosevelt was that kind of a person too." The President then led a toast to "one of history's truly monumental figures," and the Marine Band blared out Roosevelt's old campaign song, Happy Days Are Here Again...
...When he met Frieda Lawrence's granddaughter, he instantly fell in love. Then reality began to edit illusion. When the first words his new wife spoke to him on their wedding morning were "You didn't cut off the crusts" (he had forgotten to trim the connubial toast), Alvarez thought: "It's the wrong script." Frantically, he turned page after page. Didn't Lawrence write that Grand Passion was part of the Great Tradition? Wasn't marriage a heroic endeavor? When, four years later, his marriage foundered, the writer felt that he had failed...
...afternoon, Haig was visited by Avital Shcharansky, 31, wife of the imprisoned Soviet Jewish dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, who is reported to be receiving harsh treatment at the Soviet labor camp where he is serving a 13-year sentence. In a toast to his visitor, Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir welcomed Haig's participation as a "positive approach" and added, "We too are ready to make an effort...
...Jets and the Giants provided New Yorkers with fine memories in 1981. For the Giants, newcomers Rob Carpenter and Lawrence Taylor were quickly elevated to celebrity status by a New York media hungry for heroes. Joe Danello became the toast of the town by beating Dallas with his overtime field goal...