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...Protocol in the Congo government, was peddling her views to dozens of Congolese politicians who streamed through her office which adjoins Lumumba's residence. As chief speechwriter for Deputy Premier Gizenga, she also whipped up the tirade against the U.N. and the West which Gizenga delivered at a banquet honoring Dag Hammarskjold's arrival...
Happy & Hairy. Though reluctantly giving ground on this issue, Cuba continued to tie itself into tighter knots with Russia and Red China. A delegation from Cuba's government-run Confederation of Labor junketed through China from banquet to banquet and agreed with the Communist All-China Federation of Trade Unions in a joint condemnation of U.S. "imperialist aggression." A Chinese Communist trade delegation to Cuba, headed by Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Lu Hsu-chang, closed a deal with National Bank President Ernesto ("Che"') Guevara to buy 500,000 tons of Cuban sugar each year for five years...
...going to be very, very tough." . . . So great is the affection of Manager Cus D'Amato for his fighter, World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, that D'Amato outdid his customary generosity in giving Patterson a little something befitting the man's rank. At a testimonial banquet in Manhattan, Boxer Patterson, who regained his title in June from Sweden's Ingemar Johansson and plans to defend it in Los Angeles Nov. i, starred in a coronation ceremony witnessed by such fight fans as U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner...
...wound up on the editor's desk, and once, when an irate woman subscriber complained that her carrier was dropping the paper in a puddle, Editor Allen delivered a fresh copy himself. After putting in a twelve-hour work day, Allen often headed straight for the nearest community banquet, where he managed a few words in the language of the occasion, be it Japanese, Chinese, Korean or English...
...made from the mayor's residence, Gracie Mansion. A prospectus was bound in red-and-gilt vellum, bore the simple, modest title: "The Greatest Hotel Ever Built." It was to be called, inevitably, The Zeckendorf; it would be 48 stories high, with 2,000 luxury rooms, ten banquet halls, 15 private dining rooms. It would cost $66 million and open in 1961. Ground was broken last summer with more fanfare: city officials and Bill Zeckendorf lined up, like Rockettes in tin helmets, and manned the air hammers...