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After two hours or so of talk, the 75-year-old visitor will be escorted through the Rose Garden to the Family Dining Room. There will be some chilled Stolichnaya vodka from Mother Russia to wash down Chesapeake blue crabs out of Chef Henry Haller's imaginative kitchen. Old Grom can demolish succulent rolled veal, served on Lyndon Johnson's china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage...
...next bar stool. Chariots of Fire follows Stars Fell on Alabama. Bob tells a regional joke: "It is not true that possums are born dead by the side of the road." He insists that Terry fill out an application to the clan on a cocktail napkin. A Northern visitor is worried that he means the Klan. But no, this invitation is to join the Clan Maxwell Society. "We meet four times a year, wear kilts, promote Scottish culture." Another clan member, Kenn, a fourth-generation American with a Pavarotti girth and an approximate voice, whose favorite songs are Old Scot...
...Birmingham the rule is: Be friendly, warm and helpful. When a Yankee visitor wonders what the local cornbread tastes like, several regulars offer to go home right that very minute and start baking some up for an early-morning delivery. The crowd has reached full pitch, chorusing stanzas celebrating happy American vistas-I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover-and heartbreak-The Way We Were-and bittersweet hope. After all these years, I Could Have Danced All Night still prompts the certainty that Someday My Prince Will Come, perhaps no later than Tomorrow, and from then...
...kind of thing the Columbia fans were thinking about as they packed the stadium--the first sellout crowd at Baker Field in 30 years--to see the Lions lose to Harvard, 35-21. But maybe it wasn't. The stadium, after all, is half-complete, with plans for the visitor's side awaiting funding. There was a heavy Harvard concentration, and the New Yorkers who made up most of the Columbia contingent went back and forth between enthusiasm and hope for what most of the speakers touted as a new era in Columbia athletics, and embarassment over the fact that...
...have Greenfield Village, the Institute of Arts, and the River rouge Plant, but that's about all there is here for the visitor. Instead, Detroit is known by those who do and do not live here for its 17 percent unemployment, murders, and rampant poverty...