Word: ballrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first stop was Atlanta, where the Vice Premier was welcomed enthusiastically by 1,500 people at a $20-a-plate luncheon in the ballroom of the gleaming 73-story Peachtree Plaza Hotel. The guests included former Secretary of State Dean Rusk, once an implacable foe of Chinese Communism, who chatted amiably during lunch with Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua. In the audience were several hundred bankers and heads of corporations, and Teng directed most of his remarks toward them. Said...
Tall, lean, moustachioed and permanently suntanned, Hilton had the courtly manner of a Spanish grandee. "Connie" was a man who loved ballroom dancing and opened almost all new Hilton hotels by taking to the empty dance floor with an attractive partner to perform an obscure European dance, the Varsoviana, which he regarded as a good-luck ritual...
...Ballroom. While it beats, the heart defies time. Dappled by the shimmering lights of the Stardust Ballroom, the couples whom Director-Choreographer Michael Bennett sends swirling across its floor are cradled in hopes and dreams unmocked by middle age. An entrancing musical with a rare grace note of affection...
...meetings of the convention were held in the ballroom of the Allen House. In an anteroom was the office of the chairman of the executive committee. He was the busiest man in the convention; he was so busy that he got nothing done whatever...
...delegations were presenting the claims of their several cities to the next year's conventions . . . In the midst of these more diffident invitations, the golden doors of the ballroom opened with a blatting of trumpets, and a circus parade rolled in. It was composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers . . . As a clown, beating a bass drum, extraordinarily happy and noisy, was Babbitt...