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Gold Service. That night the Nixons, official hosts in the absence of President and Mrs. Eisenhower, gave a state dinner for the Castillo Armases at Anderson House; two nights later, the Guatemalan guests responded with a banquet at the Shoreham Hotel, which got out its famed gold service for the occasion. On Mamie Eisenhower's telegraphed invitation, the Castillo Armases toured the White House-and nearly bumped into a group of touring Russian housing experts...
...sideshow nature of the play* makes possible a diversity of insights into the Comédie's methods of production. If much is traditional and even ritualistic, very little seems petrified. In view of interspersed high slapstick of dancing and singing and fencing masters, of ostentatious banquet scenes and staircase serenades, of a Turkish fandango suggesting fraternal-order shenanigans. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme becomes a varied though lengthy evening. Despite its measure of real low comedy, it retains a kind of ballet air. There is something ceremonious as well as earthy in its laughter, and a pinch of period charm...
More than 400 Armenians launched a three-year drive for the endowment of a chair in Armenian history and culture by pledging $28,230 at a banquet in the Boston Harvard Club last night. The National Association for Amernian Studies and Research, sponsor of the project, now has about $38,000 of the $300,000 necessary for the chair...
Breaking the Deadlock. That evening the diplomats assembled at a massive banquet in the Kremlin's St. George's Hall. Adenauer sat in the center, flanked by Bulganin and Khrushchev. The three men talked heatedly, emphasizing their points with gestures. At one point, Party Boss Khrushchev leaned across the German Chancellor and gabbed furiously at Bulganin. Then, in two quiet sentences, the Soviet Premier broke...
Warren delivered his speech in a flag bedecked Memorial Hall at the formal banquet which concluded the three-day session...