Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Waldorf-Astoria, more than 1,000 people jammed the Grand Ballroom for an Overseas Press Club luncheon, with women in mink heavily outnumbering the working newsmen. "Is she 40?" asked one matron, marveling at the youthful appearance of the tiny figure on the dais. "I can't believe it." (She is 39.) Commented another, "You don't have nails like that and do much around the house...
Pleas for Unity. It began in Cleveland at a $5-a-plate chicken luncheon. Three thousand people jammed the main ballroom and balconies of the Sheraton-Cleveland Hotel, overflowed into an extra room, where they watched Goldwater on closed-circuit television. He kept them cheering with his charge that the "far left" is more dangerous to the U.S. than the "far right." He slammed the Kennedy Administration hard for giving more than "50 important policymaking jobs" to members of Americans for Democratic Action. Snapped Goldwater: "I worry a lot more about extremists who are inside the house breaking...
Rattled Noncoms. Last month the austere ballroom of Rio de Janeiro's Military Club shook with saber-rattling debate as officers protested the chaos and inflation around them and issued a two-week ultimatum for a 100% pay increase. Unless they got higher pay, shouted one officer, "it will not be the fall of the Bastille, but of Brasilia." Such talk annoyed the noncommissioned officers, a more left-wing bunch, who tend to consider Goulart something of a kindred spirit. From Rio's Sergeants' Club came accusations that the generals wanted to overthrow the President. A pair...
Then last week Yves St. Laurent threw open his salon and voila! the priestesses of high fashion rocketed into orbit. "It made a week of life on gilt ballroom chairs worthwhile," wrote the Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard. "St. Laurent has always known that what modern women really want to look like are little boys...
...experts in medical and related sciences who gathered last week in Manhattan's Americana Hotel spent hours listening intently to highly technical discussions of sex chromosomes, enzyme systems and skeletal development. In the Imperial Ballroom, earphones provided simultaneous translation in three languages. It was the second international conference on congenital malformations sponsored by the National Foundation-March of Dimes. The world's outstanding researchers were tackling an immense problem: one baby out of every 15 is born with some defect, be it physical, mental or chemical. In the U.S. alone, that means more than 250,000 victims each...