Word: banqueteer
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...crusaders in search of new causes, ban-the-bombers (including that foolish sage, Bertrand Russell), all of them joined in the London streets by joyriding beatniks. Amazingly, they were also joined, in spirit, by Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy Leader George Brown, who chose to boycott a banquet for the visitors-which could only raise questions about the mental health and stability of British politics...
Rose went to Vienna to meet Mrs. Khrushchev when the President and the Soviet Premier met in 1961. Sure enough, there was a picture of Viennese banquet tables. "Mrs. Khrushchev," said Rose, "impressed me because she spoke English so well. She shows a lot of initiative and fulfills her position very well...
...cavernous, thatch-roofed banquet hall of Addis Ababa's Menelik Palace, 30 colorfully garbed African heads of state and 2,000 other guests, all back-slapping and jovial, were feasting at the board of their medaled host, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. As waiters in green-and-gold livery moved among food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor...
What was it all about? Well, it was about a Waldorf banquet for U.S. Representative Charles A. Buckley, 72, Democratic boss of The Bronx. Buckley, best known in the House for his chronic absenteeism, is an old friend of Joe Kennedy's, was an active backer of Jack's presidential candidacy as early as 1957, looks fondly on all Kennedys-and with reason. It was therefore only natural that the President of the U.S. should dictate a telegram to be sent to Buckley in New York on the night of the dinner. It said: "We want to join...
...theory that the Greek economy no longer needed it. De Gaulle is said to be prepared to climax his visit with an offer of a $10 million development loan; French investments in Greece already total $60 million and are second only to U.S. investment. At a palace banquet, De Gaulle made clear in a toast to King Paul that he hopes to extend France's influence from the "northern seas," which he called one of France's boundaries, to the eastern Mediterranean, where, he pointed out, Greece is the "hinge between the Latin and Slavic worlds, as well...