Word: conferences
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tennis match; her career was farther advanced than Annie's; she did move out of Allen's apartment, but she stayed in New York, and lived for a while with another man. Through the five years since they split, she and Allen have maintained an unshakable friendship; they confer at dinner, catch a Knicks' game, work together, each one busily putting bubble-gum patches on the insecurities of the other...
...expenses, among many other things, are involved. He has put the 54-room Playboy mansion in Chicago up for sale (asking price: $2.5 million) and moved to a 29-room Xanadu in Beverly Hills; Daniels flies out every other week to brief him, but otherwise they rarely confer on day-to-day operations. There is talk of an eventual successor to Hef as chief. One candidate for the title: his daughter Christie, 24, who is now concentrating on new magazine development and presumably one day will wind up owning a big chunk of Hefner's 72% of Playboy stock...
When Zbigniew went to Camp David to confer with Carter, the President and Rosalynn were riding bicycles in the sunshine. The consultations on the mountaintop were so productive that Brzezinski vowed to recommend that the White House set up summer operation at Camp David from June to September for at least three or four days of each week...
...Begin, for example, dispatched a personal emissary, Shmuel Katz, on a month-long mission to the U.S. in early June. Working closely with the Israeli embassy in Washington, Katz met with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, Congressmen and journalists, then traveled to New York and Chicago to confer with Jewish lay and religious leaders and more journalists. Says an Israeli diplomat who helped to arrange the trip: "He succeeded in dispelling the image of Begin as a wild...
...consulate that has outlived the prosperity of the American-owned rubber plantations that once flourished there. The Viet Nam War is over. In literary time, it is post-Heart of Darkness and The Ugly American. The real action now takes place in far-flung Hiltons, where multinational businessmen confer in the Esperanto of global trade...