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...foot platform, breaking two bones in her foot; but she gamely recovered long enough to introduce the next speaker. The second biggest crisis occurred when the banquet waiters failed to set enough places at the head tables. Some feathers were ruffled as 15 ladies had to step down to dine at the floor-level tables. But all proceeded smoothly again through the ceremonies, when officers presented four $1,000 scholarships, Smokey Bear awards, an anti-litter trophy, and the flower arrangements and horticultural prizes...
...refused all requests for private political discussions or larger meetings. De Gaulle's notes from Colombey, written in his proud hand, are as highly prized as were Napoleon's scribblings from Elba. His invitations to lunch or dinner are as rare and valued as "an invitation to dine privately with Brezhnev or Mao," to quote one old Gaullist, who has not made...
...support of President Johnson. He also tossed the first names of Government officials around so freely that he persuaded prominent figures to lend their endorsements. More significantly, he managed to raise $800,000 by 1967, partly by leading some donors to believe that they would receive invitations to dine at the White House. Most of the money was spent on the mansion. Dormann even coaxed Manhattan's celebrity restaurant, "21," into helping to equip a lavish kitchen, ostensibly for sating presidential appetites...
Words or Shoes. In recent years, Dine's paintings have grown more lyrical-often downright erotic. A six-week sojourn in London in 1966 produced a series of blithe drawings that limned private parts of the human anatomy rather more explicitly than is customary. Within a few days of their exhibition, London police confiscated 21 of the works, but a judge later ruled that the works in themselves were not indecent...
...most prominent motif currently is the heart, an image loaded with visual and literary connotations. In its repetition of the image and its lyric use of warm, watery colors, Rome Hearts can be read as a kind of tone poem. Not surprisingly, perhaps, Dine has also published a volume of his poetry. Like his paintings, his poems are personal, full of discovery, the outpourings of an artist who seems to need to share his joy with the world. "I want to express myself with anything I can get my hands on," he says. "Whether it is words or shoes...