Word: banqueteer
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...banquet during the Suez conference in London (see FOREIGN NEWS), square-cut Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov turned up in a brand-new dinner jacket, set fellow diplomats and male fashion authorities to buzzing. A spokesman for Britain's dictatorial but often waggish Tailor and Cutter magazine ripped into Shepilov's ensemble with a piece-by-piece analysis. Of the pre-tied, hook-on bow tie: "If you don't have a valet to tie your tie, which regrettably many people don't, then you should tie it up yourself.'' Of the hang...
...ceramics opposite are by J. J. Kaendler, chief modeler at Meissen from 1733 to 1763, and the most brilliant in Meissen's history. Kaendler's pieces were intended chiefly for banquet settings of a sort that had previously been made in candy or wax. He could turn his patron's dining table into a miniature park or stage alive with glistening birds or gaily obscene mimes from the Italian Commedia dell'arte. Sometimes he would create a hunt, a concert, or a table-top display of drawing-room conceits. The Hand Kiss is part...
...Presidencia (the presidential palace). Again, the crowds swarmed along the streets to see him and cheer in the 90° heat. When he arrived at the Presidencia, he paused for the inevitable photos, then went inside, took a heavy, carved-mahogany chair at a long table in the banquet hall. The main and strange order of business: formal exchange of autographs among the American Presidents, each one presenting to the others a folio of his country's postage stamps. Eisenhower was clearly tired; as the proceedings wore on, he clasped his hands tensely in front of him. Said...
...German visitor, Konrad Adenauer, told of a triumph of toastmanship achieved by the hardheaded, steel-stomached old man on his visit to Moscow last September. Unaware of der Alte's heroic capacity for hard liquor, Communist Party Chief Khrushchev had proposed one toast after another at a state banquet, watching eagerly as the German Chancellor drained glass after glass of vodka. At the end of some 15 toasts, Adenauer was still going strong, and able to note a slight transformation in Khrushchev's drinking pattern that had taken place early in the match...
...annual armed forces banquet last week, President Pedro Aramburu clamped his black-rimmed reading glasses firmly on his nose, then stood before a radio microphone to broadcast the answer to Argentina's biggest political puzzle. National, provincial and municipal elections, he promised, will be held late next year. Probable election month: October...