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Charles André de Gaulle, who never accepts dinner invitations to foreign embassies, had made an exception. Together with his wife Yvonne, the President of France sat down at a ceremonial banquet in the 18th century Hótel de Beauharnais, the palace in which German ambassadors to France have lived for most of the past 150 years. The banquet had a double purpose: to celebrate the return of the palace, seized by the French at the end of World War II, and to set the mood for this week's visit by Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger and Foreign Minister...
Under the great crystal chandeliers of the banquet hall, the waiters kept pouring out the Dom Pérignon '62 and the guests kept pouring out Franco-German friendship. At one particularly ebullient moment, De Gaulle rose with a toast to "the friendship that our two peoples have sealed, guided by reason and emotion alike." Then a messenger arrived from the Quai d'Orsay, bearing an urgent news dispatch for Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. It was datelined Ravensburg, West Germany, and it froze the frail Couve in his mahogany chair. It also launched...
...team heads north tonight for a day of practice before Friday's slalom and cross-country races. The downhill and jumping have been scheduled for Saturday, followed by a banquet and award ceremony...
Second Bulge. At a gala banquet in Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts named the tall and stately Mrs. Brown "Collector of the Year," an award bestowed by the museum's enthusiastic society of collectors on their exemplars (past titleholders: Virginia's Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from...
...identity, Massey spent a lifetime at home and abroad championing the idea of Canada's "Canadianness"-a nation distinct from its U.S. good neighbor and Franco-British forefathers. In that cause, he gave an added dimension to the largely ceremonial office of Governor-General, using every ribbon-cutting, banquet, trip and state function to insist that "what we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes...