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...necessarily a friendly one, though. In Peking, at a multicourse banquet for representatives of nations that had voted for China's entry into the U.N., Acting Foreign Minister Chi Pengfei used the occasion to give the delegation an appropriately revolutionary sendoff. "The one or two superpowers are finding it more and more difficult to engage in truculent acts of manipulating the U.N. and international affairs," he declared. "Countries want independence, nations want liberation, and people want revolution-this has become an irresistible trend in the world today...
...concrete caissons on which 'Big John' rested." The story, widely applauded at the time, subsequently won one of the more coveted prizes given for business journalism. Last week Church accepted none other than a John Hancock Award, worth $1,500 and a dais seat at a banquet. The dinner was given-where else? -atop the skyscraper whose caissons, happily, have been repaired...
...vote was in. Two minutes later, Chancellor Willy Brandt was on TV to declare it "a great day for Europe." NATO's Secretary-General Joseph Luns glowed to reporters: "The sun shines all over Europe today." Queen Juliana of The Netherlands, informed of the result at a gala banquet in Hamburg, immediately raised her glass and told the 360 dinner guests, who broke into applause. Jean Monnet, 82, justly known as "the Father of the Common Market," watched the vote from the gallery in the House of Commons. Afterward he beamed: "This is what I have been waiting...
...bottle-that were sent to Iran a month early to rest. There were also 7,700 Ibs. of meat, 8,000 Ibs. of butter and cheese, and 1,000 pints of cream to feed the guests and their legions of attendants. The menu for the main banquet was up to the occasion: quail eggs stuffed with caviar (the only Iranian dish on the menu); a mousse of crayfish tails in Nantua sauce; stuffed rack of roast lamb and, as a main course, a traditional medieval dish: roast peacock stuffed with foie gras. For dessert there was a ring of figs...
...Ceausescu, whose husband, the President of Rumania, is not Moscow's favorite chief of state. The Shah sat between Queens Fabiola of Belgium and Ingrid of Denmark. Agnew sat at the end of the table with a small American contingent, including a bejeweled Mrs. Henry Ford II. The banquet was scheduled to last three hours...