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Death's Head. Again that afternoon at 4, at a reception in the vast, new banquet hall atop the Palace of Congresses. Voroshilov appeared, like a death's head at a feast. Wearing row on row of Soviet decorations, as if to say "They can't take that away from me," he stood at a buffet table, nibbling at hors d'oeuvres and glancing frequently at the enclosure where Khrushchev was shaking hands with members of the diplomatic corps. Voroshilov nipped through the gap between tables and joined Anastas Mikoyan and several friends who were obliged...
...suit their tastes, often escorts the guests on a tour of the White House. The Kennedys have the Marine and Air Force bands play music to relieve the once embarrassing pauses at state dinners, frequently spread the guests around at small, informal tables instead of the traditional giant banquet board, linger at the White House door to bid each guest goodbye...
...with a luncheon speech in Framingham, an appearance at a "silver get-acquainted tea" given by Medford St. James Church Women's Guild, a talk to a parents' group at the Wrenthem State School for retarded children. That night he attended the General Casimir Pulaski Skyway Committee banquet, held in Dorchester, quoted part of Poland's national anthem in Polish, enthusiastically danced the polka with a score of girls...
Abboud's visit produced a historical footnote. After a state banquet, the Kennedys led Abboud, a lover of theatricals, and other guests into the East Room of the White House, where, on an improvised stage, the American Shakespeare Festival troupers presented excerpts from Macbeth and four other plays. It was Shakespeare's first visit inside the White House, although earlier troupers had declaimed the Bard for Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft on the White House lawn...
Both first and second squads are determined to overcome the dismal fate predicted for Harvard by early-season journalistic paperwork. Yesterday, Yovicsin expressed the attitude of the team at a football banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston: "The experts think we're a second division club," he said, "but the players...