Word: banquet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the release of 100 homing pigeons from its London headquarters and a banquet for more than 1,000 notables, Reuters' news service last week celebrated its 100th anniversary. Since Founder Paul Julius Reuter started the service by using pigeons to carry financial news on the continent, Reuters has grown to be the world's second largest news service (biggest: Associated Press), with more than 3,200 newspaper clients and 2,000 staffers and stringers around the world...
...Paris one night last week, President Vincent Auriol of France sat down to a banquet of boeuf bouquetière in honor of a special group of guests: 41 French schoolboys who had some tales to tell. A few months before, each boy had set out on a solitary journey of thousands of miles with about $45 for the whole trip. For these winners of France's oddest scholarships, dinner with M. Auriol was just one in a long series of adventures...
...Barkley and the Secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, Interior and Agriculture were there to greet him. That evening, Harry Truman gave a state dinner (trout, squab and four kinds of wine) attended by some 50 top Washingtonians at the Hotel Carlton. Next evening, Dean Acheson gave another black-tie banquet for Galo Plaza; the guests included a lot of the faces the Ecuadorian had seen the night before. Afterward, the visitor, who had no work to do, bade good night to protocol, flashed off to a gay affair given by Cuba's peppery Ambassador Luis Machado, danced and drank...
...midst of the cattlemen's fury over his price rollbacks on beef, Price Stabilizer Mike Di Salle went to a University of Denver banquet, complained after taking only a couple of nibbles of his sirloin: "I just can't stand steak any more" (see BUSINESS...
...banquet closing the conference, Dean David, of the Business School made his expected announcement that construction of the Kresge and Aldrich Halls, the projected new dining-recreation center and classroom building will start this summer...