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...Useful Part. That agreement was prelude to a kind of Eisenhower-Goldwater confrontation last week in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel. The occasion was in honor of Ike's 73rd birthday, and some 750 top Republicans gathered. During the reception before the banquet, Barry and Ike mingled with the mob-but never quite came face to face. When Ike and Mamie walked into the banquet hall, Goldwater applauded enthusiastically. After the dinner, Eisenhower and Goldwater finally did get together, chatted briefly, but to eavesdropping ears, what they said to each other did not seem to matter greatly...
Indeed, by the time she stepped off a Pan American jet from Paris, wearing a brown ao-dai, the lions were really roaring. In the Senate, Ohio Democrat Stephen Young blasted her as "arrogant" and "viciously anti-American." At a Cleveland banquet, Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays growled, "It's bad enough that every two-bit dictator around the world reviles and insults the U.S. at will, but it is too much to let this comic-strip Dragon Lady do it under our very noses." One high State Department official, noting that Mme. Nhu had been invited...
...League last spring for betting on his own games, the Green Bay Packers' Golden Boy Paul Hornung automatically lost his fat $25,000 salary. So what happened to the tarnished hero? While his mates knock heads on the field this fall, Hornung will be riding high on the banquet circuit, raking in money from endorsements and jamming radio and TV programs. Barring an upset stomach or laryngitis, he should make more than $40,000 this year-only a slight comedown from last year's $50,000 total...
...likes parties, and he has a real flair for pre siding over them. Last week he made big plans for starting the fall social season. Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his Queen Homaira were in town. In their honor, there was to be a black-tie banquet in the Rose Garden - with fireworks, a Marine-drill-squad exhibition, music by some Air Force bagpipers and ice cream souffle for dessert. But it rained that day, and the President moved the affair into the State Dining Room...
...chain helps to pull in the guests; Hilton operates a globe-circling reservation system of 126 sales offices, which produce 25% of his room business. Each hotel keeps a rigid watch on costs and sends daily reports to Hilton headquarters, which knows within 24 hours whether a banquet in Cairo or Hong Kong made money. To tighten costs, two teams of executives surveyed 15 Hilton hotels in the U.S. last year, came up with findings that will save the chain nearly $2 million. All this has helped to bring the Hilton chain's labor bill down...