Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actions to preserve peace than to curse us through eternity for inaction that might lose both our peace and our freedom." Cattiness & Caterwauling. Of course, there was plenty of quarreling going on about Administration policy. In a "national teach-in" held in Washington's Sheraton Park Hotel ballroom and beamed to dozens of U.S. college campuses via radio and educational television channels, academicians of varying qualifications arose to attack or defend the U.S. commitment in Viet...
...finished a cup of coffee at the governor's mansion with Senate Majority Leader Charles Moriarty, and was about to start across the street to his capitol office, when the quake hit. "All I could hear," he said, "was the raining of crystals from the chandeliers in the ballroom." Evans raced to the kitchen, where his two sons, Mark, 1½, and Daniel Jr., 4, were eating breakfast, hustled them and the mansion's other occupants out onto the lawn. Said he: "If it had lasted another 30 seconds, I think we might have had a major disaster...
...last week's championship, a crowd of 700 jammed the Windsor Ballroom, and ABC-TV was on hand to catch every clicking carom. The prize money was $13,000. Nobody was taking it lightly, least of all an ex-butcher from Minersville, Pa., named Joe Balsis. "My wife and kids have a nasty habit," said Balsis, 42. "They...
...backdrops, soon added a staff of up to four in the busy season. But they were only mockup builders and draftsmen to turn the Smith brainstorms into blueprints, for Smith has always been his own idea man. His most lasting innovation was the development of mobile scenery: his choreographed ballroom stopped the show in the midst of My Fair Lady. But Smith has never been criticized for scene stealing. He just takes them when they are there for the taking. In a viable writer's show like The Odd Couple, Smith abstemiously designs "a set no one will ever...
Outside Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel last week, the temperature was a frigid 26°, but in the grand ballroom the atmosphere of Carrier Corp.'s 50th anniversary stockholders' meeting was glowingly warm. President William Bynum, 62, announced that sales in fiscal 1964 jumped 9%, to $325 million. Directors recently voted a 20% dividend raise, and shareholders happily approved a three-for-two stock split...