Word: xanadu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come, the presidential style of leisure may be considerably grander. Last week Nixon signed a bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...
...work here. Garrett somehow has the illusion that in pleading the environment case, she is delivering word that is not only vital but fresh. Carol Kristy, another pixie with astonishing gusto, shares this illusion, which provides the revue with its life. She sings about the lost wonder of Xanadu, the time when man could think of no limit on his life but death, as if she had just flown in from there in time for the curtain...
TAXES. Former Senator John Williams, denouncer of Bobby Baker for influence peddling, sponsored a tax-bill amendment that allowed a $2.1 million writeoff for Xanadu, a family estate in Cuba that was confiscated by Castro. Further, say the Raiders, the company and family properties in Delaware are undervalued for tax purposes. Irenée Jr. says that he knows nothing about any contacts made with Senator Williams in the family's behalf. To the other point, Vice President Irving Shapiro, the company's first Jewish director, replies: "If the accusation is that Du Pont is chiseling on existing...
...house, a few hundred feet away, the host watches the Connecticut sky display its sense of occasion by turning a fulgid, Turneresque pink. Philip Johnson, architect and art collector, scans his horizon with pleasure as if the sunset, too, were a commissioned work. The inauguration of his own special Xanadu is nearly over...