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...exclusive photographs that accompany this week's report on the state dinner for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat were equally ingenious. To get a candid picture of President Reagan's toast without creating a distraction, Photographer Dennis Brack placed two cameras inside soundproofed planter boxes that had holes in the sides and then tripped them by infrared beams from across the room. In Brack's case, being in the "wrong" place at the right time was the perfect solution...
...Julian Calder shot the wedding ceremony from the 100-ft.-high whispering gallery inside St. Paul's Cathedral. Across the plaza Terry Spencer crouched in a fourth-floor window and photographed the royal procession. Nearby, Dirck Halstead snapped the passing parade, then joined other photographers in a champagne toast for the bride and bridegroom. After taking pictures of the fireworks display in Hyde Park on the eve of the wedding, Neil Leifer grabbed three hours of sleep before moving into place outside Buckingham Palace at 5:30 a.m. Says he: "The combination of the handsome royal couple, glinting horse...
...state dinner in honor of Schmidt and his wife Hannelore. Among the 102 guests: Arthur F. Burns, 77, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, who was chosen by Reagan last week to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to West Germany. In his reply to Reagan's toast, Schmidt was almost embarrassingly extravagant in praising his host, referring several times to the "confidence" and "self-assuredness" generated by Reagan's inspirational leadership...
...screen lovers raise their glasses in a toast, so does just about everyone in the audience. Wooroo! Such synchronized celebrations take place nightly at a growing number of movie bars in the South and Northeast, where patrons may chase a good flick-or drown a bad one-with beer, wine or cocktails. Seated in executive-style leather swivel chairs ranged around butcher-block cocktail tables, customers have only to beckon a waitress for refills or to order sandwiches. They manage thus to combine the comforts of home with the fillip of a night out. Indeed, sipping cinemas...
...official dinner hosted by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Haig poked some fun at his own troubles within the Administration. In a toast to Shamir, Haig told the guests that he had been puzzled by exactly what it meant to be "vicar" of foreign policy. Cyrus Vance told him it meant being alone with the President three times a week. Henry Kissinger said it meant that when he was alone with the President and the hot line rings, the President tells Mr. Brezhnev, "I'm busy now. Can you call back later...