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...holder failed to appear at last week's Manhattan benefit for the Martha Graham Dance Company. The guest of honor of the evening, which starred Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, was First Lady Betty Ford in a flowing purple Halston gown. She was escorted by Woody Allen in tux and sneakers ("I think those black shoes they have with tuxedos are terrible"). But the evening's most eye-opening costume belonged to Nureyev, who danced his role clad only in a solid gold mesh dancer's belt. After his performance, the very bare dancer greeted the First...
...those days before the election, Gerald Ford danced across the great American political stage like Fred Astaire out on the back lot of MGM. Sometimes in tux and shiny slippers, other times in button-down and plaid, always with a smile, a beefy victory clasp and a quip, he shuffled along to the chants of the airport crowds, the brassy tunes of high school bands and occasionally a dance combo...
...Spanish Loyalists; September 1, 1939, Germany invades Poland. But on the inner pages of The Crimson, editorials urged strict neutrality and isolationism for the United States, and reviews and advertisements urged students to forget and to be frivolous. Ads for ballroom dancing lessons as well as special offers for "Tux or Tails" for a mere $35 reflect Harvard's version of the national passion for dancing. (Favorite songs for 1939 included "Deep in a Dream," "Wishing," and "I Didn't Know What Time It Was.") Meanwhile, Time magazine records the fact that a Harvard freshman, one Lothrop Witlington of Holworthy...
Come nightfall, Bermuda shorts are sometimes exchanged for evening gown and tux for a trip to the casinos. To encourage a steady stream of new faces-and new money-there is a three-day parking limit on the Stardust grounds. Few campers stay that long; there is always someplace else to go. For some, keeping on the move is what it is all about. Foster Root, a retired salesman, sold his house in New Jersey and took to the road with his wife. "We're camping 52 weeks a year," he says, "until we decide where to live...
...hall outside the President's office they hung up those beautiful 15-by-18 color prints of his second Inauguration. There was Nixon with a huge smile, in tux, enfolding his glowing family as they...