Word: banqueteer
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There were trips to a textile factory, Luxor and the Aswan High Dam. There was a state banquet at which Ulbricht and Nasser exchanged their countries' highest awards. To Nasser went East Germany's Order of the Grand Golden Star for International Friendship, to Ulbricht went Egypt's Great Collar of the Order of the Nile-and, to Ulbricht's wife Lotte, the Great Collar of the Order of Perfection...
...from General Manager Ralph Houk that the dough is to be used for harmonica lessons. That wasn't all. Linz is negotiating a second contract with Hohner Harmonicas to plug mouth organs coast-to-coast, which he can do on any of 50 harmonicas given him on the banquet circuit this winter, including a 2-ft.-long job presented by the Maryland Professional Baseball Players Association "for his baseball and cultural achievements...
...After two months on the banquet circuit, last year's Olympians have been having their troubles in this winter's big indoor track meets. Nobody has even cracked 4 min. for the mile, and the fans are getting to be girl watchers...
Earlier in the week, Johnson had seemed to be bouncing back. He more than rose to the occasion at a White House banquet honoring Vice President Hubert Humphrey (see following story], House Speaker John McCormack and Chief Justice Earl Warren. The guest list was impressive. All the Justices of the Supreme Court and most of the members of the Johnson Cabinet were there. The leaders of Congress were well represented. So was the newspaper-publishing industry-the Otis Chandlers of Los Angeles, the Palmer Hoyts of Denver, the Arthur Sulzbergers of New York. Top Washington Lawyers (and sometime Johnson advisers...
...make it; of acute pancreatitis; in Pittsburgh. Stuhldreher was less successful as a coach, winning only 45 while losing 62 in 13 years at the University of Wisconsin, finally left in 1950 to become a U.S. Steel industrial relations executive and one of the country's best-known banquet speakers, reliving the rides of the Four Horsemen some 250 times a year...