Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mirrored chandelier whirls, the trio blares Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, and the master of ceremonies booms, "Yow-sah, yowsah, yowsah." The place is the Aragon Ballroom in Los Angeles, the time is the Depression, and the event is an extravagance of sadomasochism known as the Marathon Dance...
...price increases. Nixon is substituting mild admonitions to business and labor en masse. Last month he wrote to 2,200 business and labor leaders, urging them to hold the line on wage and price increases. Last week he followed up by inviting 3,000 corporate leaders to the cavernous ballroom of Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel; 1,800 came for an anti-inflation "briefing" reminiscent of a college pep rally on the eve of the big Thanksgiving football game...
Months before, the Vice President had turned down an invitation to speak at the Midwestern Regional Republican Conference in Des Moines. Last week, just two days before the meeting was to begin, Agnew suddenly reinvited himself. The conference chairman hastily hired the Fort Des Moines Hotel ballroom and scheduled Agnew as the klieg-light speaker. Agnew's words were written by Buchanan, who is a hard-line conservative, and vetted in the upper echelons of Nixon's personal staff...
Diplomatic Illness. What with the immense diversity of the Moslem world, the delegates had trouble joining one another just to talk. In the gaudy ballroom of the government-owned Rabat Hilton sat such disparate types as Saudi Arabia's conservative King Feisal, the moderate Shah of Iran and Algeria's strongman Houari Boumedienne. Host Hassan neatly averted the problem of sitting alongside an old enemy, Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, by having his placard lettered "Kingdom of Morocco." That enabled him to move down seven places at the alphabetically arranged table...
...eloquence of the Apollo 11 trio provided the finest moments of Richard Nixon's elaborate state dinner in their honor. Nixon stage-managed the program for the ballroom of the Century Plaza Hotel, summoning the Marine Drum and Bugle Corps from Washington, decreeing that a song be written and performed for the occasion. The President himself approved the menu right down to the clair de lune dessert, a sphere of ice cream topped with a tiny American flag. Pat Nixon personally okayed the table decorations, which included gold napkins and cloths, flower centerpieces and twinkling five-pronged candelabra...