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...Saturday the Yardlings will picnic by the Charles, with Schneider's Band providing music to drink by. That evening a candlelight banquet in the Freshman Union will precede four hours of dancing to the music of Harry Marshard in a subtly disguised Memorial Hall...
...Senate's slickest new comedy team is the improbable combination of Democratic Liberal Hubert Humphrey and Republican Conservative Barry Goldwater, who traded off quips for a boffo hour at a recent banquet of the Women's National Press Club. Humphrey's best line: "Barry's so handsome that I understand he's been offered a movie contract-with 18th Century-Fox." In turn, Goldwater compared Humphrey's druggist background with the academic luster of the new Cabinet appointments: "I can't see how the Denver College of Pharmacy jibes with Harvard...
...Czarist days has the Kremlin seen such a night of festive gaiety. A sumptuously ornamented "New Year's tree" towered 50 ft. high in the vaulted St. George's Hall. Ambassadors, bishops, marshals in all their medals and all the top Soviet bosses thronged the long banquet tables and devoured mounds of caviar and salmon as Bolshoi sopranos sang and a symphony orchestra played. At the stroke of midnight,* Nikita Khrushchev raised his glass of Caucasian wine and shouted: "Happy New Year, comrades!" In great good spirits, he tossed out more toasts-"The heroic working class!" "The collective...
...diplomats and 10,000 of the citizenry endured the sweltering heat to welcome the Hero of Manhattan who had won U.N. acceptance as the Congo's leader. When the drenching rain began that evening, the gay crowds had scattered, and Kasavubu was enjoying himself at a homecoming banquet given in his home. Over at Patrice Lumumba's house, the Congolese guards took shelter in a garage; in the downpour, no one noticed the black limousine that slipped into Lumumba's driveway, then raced out again with its furtive passenger...
More than 40 editors from 19 public and private school newspapers in the East visited the CRIMSON last night for the University daily's fifth annual Scholastic Journalism Conference. After an opening banquet in the Union the school journalists toured the CRIMSON plant and watched this morning's edition go to press...