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...political business." He had, he said, flown to the Communist heartland to "see their equipment and their latest developments." This week Nate Twining attended the vaunted Soviet Aviation Day flyover-and saw precious little in the way of startling "late developments." But after the flyover he went to a banquet given by Marshal Georgy Zhukov, and met the test-riotously put-as a diplomat and politician...
Best Word. But Twining had the best, if not precisely the last, word-and he made some points that his hosts might well remember after Khrushchev's banquet-bantering is long forgotten...
...pages still again to handle the bulletins. The President's operation had been decided upon without much warning at a midnight medical conference. It came as a final twist to a dramatic, tense, often confusing 32 hours that began on Thursday night, when the President attended the annual banquet of the White House News Photographers Association in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel...
...Table. But Tito could reflect on how things have changed since his last visit to Moscow ten years ago. What happened then has since been described by Tito's Vice President Edvard Kardelj (who accompanied Tito to Moscow last week). Ten years ago Dictator Stalin threw a Kremlin banquet for Tito, then just recently emerged from Comintern obscurity to the eminence of a partisan hero and boss of Yugoslavia. Tito was clapped on the back by Stalin, who said to him: "What a pity, my dear Walter [Tito's Comintern name]. You are now living and working...
...Georgia Chamber of Commerce banquet in Washington, Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Brevard Russell tried on a Confederate Army forage hat for size* but refrained, as any dark horse presidential candidate would, from tossing it into the ring...