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...Lansing. When Michigan newsmen asked where he was Romney's press aide said that he was in New York on a "social visit." Sure enough, when New York reporters finally found him, he had been "socializing" for seven intensive hours in a suite at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. With him was a crew of old political friends who would certainly make up the nucleus of his campaign staff...
...vitality that seem to pump adrenaline into the city. He calls his administration a "wild show" and pur sues his quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard for his own standing. In his many tilts with the city's plodding...
...before the National Association of Manufacturers, Romney praised the organization for becoming less obstructionist (he took American Motors out of it because of its obstructionism in 1956), and issued a rather old-fashioned warning about the dangers of "overcentralization" in government. At a United Jewish Appeal dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria,-he sounded like Lyndon Johnson's favorite Great
Joan Rivers claims that she is now only a thin blonde disaster area, where once she was a fat blonde disaster area. In high school, she says, "I got to be chairman of the decorating committee for the prom. We decided to hold it at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, in the Grand Ballroom. I made it look just like a gymnasium. Then what happens? I was the only girl not asked to the prom. My father is a very sensitive, perceptive person, so he said, 'Look, Lump, we'll get your cousin to take you.' My cousin...
...board of CBS, last week said that he would "always think of David Sarnoff as broadcasting's most imaginative prophet." Paley, admitting that he has "the scars to prove" years of fierce competition with the RCA board chairman, was speaking to 1,500 friends at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner honoring Sarnoffs 60 years in the communications industry. "To all of us," said Paley, "David will always be broadcasting's Man of the Future...