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...hours later, however, after talking by telephone with India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in New Delhi and with the acting President of Bangladesh, Syed Nazrul Islam, in Dacca, Mujib held a press conference in the ballroom of Claridge's Hotel. While scores of jubilant East Bengalis gathered outside the hotel, Mujib called for world recognition of Bangladesh, which he described as "an unchallengeable reality," and asked that it be admitted to the United Nations...
Until recently, the only place that rivaled Saigon as a U.S. diplomatic hardship post was Paris-if one happened to be assigned to the Viet Nam peace talks. Inside or out of the velvet-curtained ballroom in the former Hotel Majestic, where the sessions are held, American negotiators have had little to do over the past three years beyond eating canapes and trying to keep their tempers while their Communist counterparts gleefully played to the grandstands. "For the first time anyone could remember," says one U.S. delegate, "Foreign Service types in Paris were requesting reassignment to places like Ouagadougou, where...
Many in the room worked for Clean Gene in 1968. For some, this is the first glimpse of the Candidate since they were thanked for their support in the ballroom of some hotel on primary night and bid "On to Chicago...
Rich Gravity. Had it not produced such interactions, Mondrian's austerity would have had its comic side. He hated green because it reminded him of nature. In restaurants, he would sit with his back to the window to avoid seeing any trees. His main pleasure was ballroom dancing, but, according to one of his friends, "he carried out his steps in such a personally stylized fashion that the results were frequently awkward." His solitary rooms in Paris, and later in New York, were kept with fussy precision, down to the exact placement of ashtrays. His life was a masterpiece...
Rock shows are canceled in Hampton Beach, N.H., when youths try to break into a sold-out ballroom. Worried officials are vastly relieved when 55,000 enthusiasts of the Grand Funk Railroad fill New York's Shea Stadium-and only three injuries and six arrests result. After an estimated 1,280 concerts for 3,750,000 music enthusiasts over a period of nearly six years, Promoter Bill Graham closes his Fillmore West in San Francisco, just one week after shutting down Fillmore East in New York City...