Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Downstairs in the ballroom of the Sheraton-Carpenter Hotel, a crowd of some 400 jubilant Muskie supporters seemed oblivious to the concern in the press room. A band played cheerful music under the bright glare of television lights and a predominantly young crowd roared with delight as the first returns were posted...
...transcendental beauty, is the centerpiece of a city redolent with memories of imperial history. Marco Polo, who saw Hangchow in the 13th century before it was savaged by Mongol invaders, found it "the most splendid city in the world." Its streets were "as smooth as the floor of a ballroom," its waters were rippled by "an endless procession of barges." its courtiers were "intent upon nothing but bodily pleasure and the delights of society...
...Alpert, who recently returned from a trip to Chile, will speak on the revolution in that country with Fernando Leiva, a Chilean student, and Andy Zimbalist, a graduate student at Harvard, tonight at the Union Ballroom, Boston University Student Center...
...hold all my briefings over the longdistance telephone. If I didn't like the way it turned out, then it wasn't me on the other end of the line. But it's only a dream." Not for a moment did anyone in that cavernous ballroom believe that Henry Kissinger envied Howard Hughes or wanted to be any place but where he was: front stage center in the world's most important capital...
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...