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Rules of the Sun. Last week he was in the U.S. for exactly three days-the maximum amount of time he could bring himself to spend in a land he has come to regard as enemy territory. His purpose was to receive at a banquet in Philadelphia the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects, and then pick up a Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Columbia University. Before accepting, he had made one stipulation: "No press, no TV, no tuxedo." But as things turned out, the master was charming...
...White House News Photographers Association is expected to admit its first Negro member-from the Baltimore Afro-American-within the next month. Reason: President Kennedy has put out word that he will refuse to attend the association's May banquet unless its all-white policy changes...
...weeks later, the Cubans got together independently for four days in Room 125 of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, where they finally agreed to cooperate. The pact was sealed in a banquet room of the Skyway Motel, Miami. There, say the exiles, a CIA agent named Carr called for "democratic agreement of all present in order to choose a chief or President, who would head the provisional government later." The choice of the Revolutionary Council, as the joint Frente-M.R.P. group was named: José Miró Cardona, a man whose career has been based on mediation and compromise...
Sheik Mubarak gave Saud plentiful opportunity to get acquainted. He held three separate lunches for the-Saudi ruler at three separate personal palaces. Fifteen hundred attended one banquet where, among other dishes, 25 young camels and 185 lambs were consumed. Specialty of the day: an entire young camel, roasted, containing an entire lamb, roasted, containing an entire roasted chicken, containing an entire roasted pigeon, contain ing a boiled egg. The repast was enlivened by Saud's five court jesters, who cracked off-color jokes and engaged in pratfall buffoonery...
...letter said that the election of Phillips, who has been associated with Republican youth groups and was a featured speaker at a recent National Review banquet, was based solely on his "personal qualities and abilities," and not on his political philosophy...