Word: astoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 1,800 fans of the grand old opera gathered at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for a celebration of his 65th birthday. "There are many virtues in growing old," General Manager Rudolf Bing told the members of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. After a dour pause, he added: "I'm just trying to think what they...
...Lansing. When Michigan newsmen asked where he was Romney's press aide said that he was in New York on a "social visit." Sure enough, when New York reporters finally found him, he had been "socializing" for seven intensive hours in a suite at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. With him was a crew of old political friends who would certainly make up the nucleus of his campaign staff...
Mother and Dad looked on beamishly from a pink-and-silver box high above the floor, and the orchestra burst into America the Beautiful. With that, Julie Nixon, 17, younger daughter of the former Vice President, stepped forward into the Grand Ballroom of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to make the first curtsy at this season's International Debutante Ball. Her sister Patricia had preceded her by two years as the U.S. representative at the gala, which presented 56 debs from twelve nations. Julie, a Smith College freshman, may have one-upped her sister in the escort department...
...National Association of Manufacturers, Romney praised the organization for becoming less obstructionist (he took American Motors out of it because of its obstructionism in 1956), and issued a rather old-fashioned warning about the dangers of "overcentralization" in government. At a United Jewish Appeal dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria,-he sounded like Lyndon Johnson's favorite Great
...fleet of privately owned automobiles now dominates yellow-tiled Russki Boulevard, having driven into retirement the babushka-topped, overall-clad street cleaners who once were its only traffic. Red Coca-Cola trucks bustle about town, carting the bubbly produce from three local bottling plants. In such cafes as the Astoria and the Alenmak, where only two years ago the twist was a reform-school offense, big-beat music blares from well-stocked jukeboxes (current top hit: Get off of My Cloud...