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...Presidency/Hugh Sidey Looking for Ideas That Work Ninety-six top thinkers, ranging from Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago, to George Gilder, the supply-side guru, worked their way through dozens of seminars, breakfast discussions and banquet speeches last week, unleashing a deluge of ideas to get America moving again...
...they usually make a splash by announcing bilateral agreements, making blustery speeches or starring in extravagant ceremonial tableaux. By contrast, Ronald Reagan's five-day trip through volatile Latin America last week was low-key. In Brazil, where Reagan spent half his time, there was no black-tie banquet, but an outdoor barbecue lunch. In Colombia, Reagan's limousine ride to the presidential palace was a few blocks, hardly a motorcade at all. On Saturday in Honduras, Reagan's final, fleeting stop, he only visited the air force base in San Pedro Sula...
After a 25-minute horseback ride around his moated ranch outside the capital, Figueiredo held a barbecue at which both the food (beef, veal, sausage and lamb) and recorded American music (Willie Nelson) were hearty, even macho. At Wednesday night's banquet, the clos est the trip came to conventional pomp, Reagan stood to offer an elaborately friendly tribute-and a faux pas at the end. "Now," he said, wineglass raised, "would you join me in a toast to President Figueiredo, to the people of Bolivia-no, that's where I'm going-to the people...
...Hasegawa, 23, at Meiji Memorial Hall, Tokyo's most prestigious marriage parlor. After the simple Shinto ceremony, capped by a sip of ritual sake, the groom, in cutaway coat and silk tie, and the bride, in a dazzling kimono, sat down with their 125 guests to consume a banquet, including lobster salad and ice cream. The master of ceremonies introduced important people from the couple's life-parents, teachers, bosses and friends. The guests offered presents. The current favored gift in Japan is hard cash, mainly to help strapped parents defray the expense of the wedding. Acceptable gifts...
...annual banquet last night at the Harvard Club of Boston, the Harvard football team announced the following awards...