Word: banqueted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laughter rippled down the banquet table at a government guesthouse in Lenin Hills on the outskirts of Moscow last week following Gromyko's circumlocutory sally. Every one of the 75 Soviet and American officials present-especially Secretary of State Cyrus Roberts Vance-understood all too well the reference to Vance's disastrous March 1977 visit, which marked a major setback for the new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) and for Soviet-American relations in general. Vance was now back, 13 months later, intending to avoid a repeat performance. As Vance told Gromyko...
...More than anyone else, he's the glue of this team," assistant coach Ray Martin said at last night's banquet. Unquestionably, Glenn adds an element of intensity to Harvard basketball that has been lacking for a long, long time...
Ford is concerned about Betty's plight, but election-year pressures make it difficult for him to stay in Palm Springs. As his 1976 running mate, Kansas Senator Robert Dole, says, "His old juices are starting to flow." When off the banquet and cap-and-gown circuits, Ford can most probably be found on the golf links. Among his partners are three millionaires: Rubber Magnate Leonard Firestone, Publishing Baron Walter Annenberg and Comedian Bob Hope. One benefit from his links dedication: Ford has lowered his handicap by three strokes, to a respectable...
...Until recently blacks received only the crumbs from the banquet table of American life--but the table was so big that many were fed anyway," Kelsey said...
...come home with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was for so long the biggest dream of my life," says Japanese-born Seiji Ozawa. On home turf at last with the orchestra, Maestro Ozawa enlivened the concert tour by ordering up a traditional, all-forks-barred banquet and decreeing: "Anyone who refuses to wear a kimono will not be invited." Delightedly, the eminent musicians swapped tails for robes. Then, they watched wide-eyed as their kinetic conductor swatted open a keg of sake with a lusty downbeat from a hammer. When the festivities were over, one veteran B.S.O. member opined: "We didn...