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...scanned two memorandums as he gulped his orange juice and chewed through his toast, talking here and there about the world and the nation and his place in it, the last still a source of wonder to him. The evening before, as most people in Washington hurried to their homes while snow began to fall, Porter had been in his office calling Air Force One with an urgent question on economic planning for his boss, L. William Seidman, President Ford's economic assistant Seidman was returning from Atlanta with Ford...
...Rubinstein just a few days before he gave a marathon concert that included two piano concertos. On his 88th birthday, the last of the great romantics on or off the keyboard celebrated with his children and grandchildren and also gave an elfish performance for some 40 friends gathered to toast him in Manhattan. RCA presented him with a chocolate piano with 88 keys. Purring at the adulation, and twinkling much the way he must have in Paris when he was interrupted during Chopin's Nocturne in D by Countess Zamoyska, who suddenly kissed him passionately on the lips, Rubinstein...
...followed, including minimum emigration quotas of 60,000 people a year. Though Jackson and Jewish leaders are now willing to let the amended bill pass, conservatives and labor leaders remain opposed. In Moscow, at a state dinner for U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon, Brezhnev offers a premonitory toast: "Attempts to condition the development of trade and economic ties by putting demands to the Soviet Union on questions totally unconnected with the trade and economic field and lying fully within the domestic competence of states are utterly irrelevant and unacceptable...
...lunch in a small, wood-paneled room off the main Varsity Club dining hall, a room with a bronzed track shoe in a glass trophy case. Restic cut his big hamburger into neat squares and ate them with his fork. Matthews put his hamburger between two slices of toast, doused it with catsup, and ate with his hands...
...group of Harvard biochemists gathered last April in the spartan office of Assistant Professor David Dressier to toast one another with champagne. They had ample cause for celebration: their ten months of experiments on a "transfer factor" in animal immunology had produced spectacular results, gaining publication in scientific journals and the attention of immunologists round the world. Furthermore, one of the group, Steven Rosenfeld, an undergraduate Wunderkind who had started the research as a summer project-had just been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...