Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...King and Queen of Siam were on hand for the first luncheon. President Herbert Hoover spoke from Washington. Even in the chauffeurs' waiting room, champagne flowed. Mr. Bagby's Musical Mornings were scheduled in the ballroom (Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, et al.). Thus, 30 years ago, the new Waldorf-Astoria opened on Manhattan's Park Avenue, setting a tone of stately, if slightly too chromium-plated, elegance that lasted nearly into the days of Hiltonization. This week, for the first time since the Waldorf debut, a new hotel opened in Manhattan, but the atmosphere was different...
...team of oldtime Yankees, including such gone greats as Bill Dickey, Allie Reynolds, Charlie Keller, and Lefty Gomez, takes on a mixed bag of former Brooklyn Dodger and New York Giant stars: Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson, Mickey Owen, Ralph Branca, Bill Terry, Frankie Frisch, Bobby Thompson, et al...
Engaged. Princess Lalla Aisha, 30, Morocco's great female emancipator (TIME cover, Nov. 11, 1957 ), sister of King Hassan II; and Hassan Al Yakoubi, 26, prosperous landowner; at the royal palace in Rabat, in a double ceremony that saw her sleek, similarly Westernized sister, Princess Lalla Malika, 23, betrothed to Mohammed Cherkaoui, 40, Morocco's ambassador-designate to France...
...Unity House meeting ended, Machinists Union President Al Hayes submitted a report of a study committee on jurisdictional disputes. Hayes told the council that his group was agreed on limited arbitration as the best way to end intra-union battles, asked for (and got) more time to work out the right formula. But some union leaders suspect that the problem will get worse before it gets better. Moans Plumbers and Pipefitters Union President Peter Schoemann: "The 'grey area' and [the jurisdictional] 'scrambled egg' area used to be just a one-egg omelet...
...full-blown four-week tour anyway, with meets in Stuttgart, London and Warsaw, following the Moscow competition. The result: nine men, nearly one-fourth of the 41-man U.S. team, reluctantly refused to make the trip. "The A.A.U. works for the A.A.U. on these trips," growled Olympic Discus Champion Al Oerter, one of the defectors. He spoke from bitter experience. In 1958 the A.A.U. wanted him to go on a similar, month-long tour, but agreed to permit him to compete only against the Russians, then get back to earning a living for himself and his pregnant wife. "After...