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Normally, recipients are required to be present at the award banquet, but the Jaycees have waived this rule for Kissinger, who is currently working on a government mission. Another nominee, pianist Van Cliburn, was not so fortunate. Since he is unable to attend, his award will go to singer Pat Boone...
...banquet in the President's house, once the palace of the British viceroys, whose stiff portraits looked down upon them, the two Prime Ministers fell all over themselves singing the blessings of freedom. "Something big is happening in Africa," said Nehru, playing his role as Big Brother of anticolonialism. Then Nkrumah rose to say that as a student in the U.S., he had read Nehru's books and asked himself, "Why isn't that man in Africa?" He called Ghana "the springboard for the final liberation of the African continent . . . Africa," he cried, "must be free...
Titanic Proportions. A gold-crusted coach drawn by six bays hauled the Garcias in style to the Imperial Palace. At a lavish banquet, court musicians played those old Japanese airs, Haydn's 17th Symphony and selections from The Barber of Seville, and gifts were exchanged all around (including a stole and purse for Crown Prince Akihito's bride-to-be, who ' was barred by Japanese protocol from attending). Amiable Old Pol Garcia soon had the shy Emperor beaming...
Then there was the problem of casting. Rattigan's writing, clever as it was, seemed to Broadway audiences no more than piquant sauce at a histrionic banquet for two of the theater's most exquisitely mannered scenery chewers: Margaret Leighton and Eric Portman, who played all four of the show's principal parts (TIME, Nov. 5, 1956). Obviously, the movie people could not hope to match that, so they set out to do better-by providing their picture with one of the screen's most gifted young directors, Delbert (Bachelor Party) Mann, and with what...
...want my girls to know everything," says Mrs. O'Mahony. "My aim is utter perfection." At least in principle, Cygnets learn to discuss abstract art, ask a bishop how he takes his tea, change a diaper, sew up a ball gown, open a bazaar, cook a banquet and, should such perfection overpower onlookers, give first aid. It is assumed that Cygnets will marry, and one lecture tells the girls "How to care for a tired husband fretful after a nasty day at the office...