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...Camp David's grounds are off limits to the press, who were herded by Marine guards and concertina wire into a sapling-fenced enclosure called "the duckblind" or farther away in an overcrowded press trailer. After newspapers published pictures similar to this one of reporters shivering under a plastic sheet in a chilly rain to phone in their stories, a press aide had more telephones installed in the trailer. Still, there were no chairs, no coffee or doughnuts or cigarettes to be purchased on Nixon's mountain, no Western Union lines for filing stories. As the Wall Street...
Bormann, who is 72 if he is alive, was depicted as being frequently on the move, sometimes out of fear and sometimes simply on business trips, but always accompanied by his chauffeur-bodyguard, "a German-speaking Chilean of Irish descent," Jorge O'Higgins. Bormann wears plastic gloves, said Farago, so that his fingerprints can never be taken, and had a mistress in Santiago who bore him four children. As of a few weeks ago, Farago contended, Bormann was back in Argentina, in Salta province, living in "a cottage on the Rancho Grande, the vast estate of Arndt von Bohlen...
...yield signs (symbols, anyone?) just doesn't catch the throbbing pulse of Maria's driving--her personal substitute for suicide. When the action moves out to Carter's shooting location in the desert. Hell is still other people, but Perry successfully concentrates on them, and not on the plastic city they have built...
...after it was bought out by Restaurant Associates. Inc. Restaurant Associates operates perhaps the world's most exclusive chain of restaurants, including Forum of the XII Caesars, Four Seasons, Le Pavillion, La Brasserie and The Ground Floor in New York. Around Boston their holdings cater to a different clientele: plastic salamied Zum Zums and fashionably filthy Hungry Charleys...
...still lingers in the New York restaurant and supplemented it with large, noisy, open, plain dining rooms more reminiscent of the Greyhound Bus Station than Sunday dinner at the D'Arminio's. Thankfully, no attempt was made to make a month-old building look 100 years old by using plastic bricks, fiberglass rustic beams, and electric candles...