Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team heads north tonight for a day of practice before Friday's slalom and cross-country races. The downhill and jumping have been scheduled for Saturday, followed by a banquet and award ceremony...
Second Bulge. At a gala banquet in Richmond, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts named the tall and stately Mrs. Brown "Collector of the Year," an award bestowed by the museum's enthusiastic society of collectors on their exemplars (past titleholders: Virginia's Paul Mellon, Chicago's Leigh Block and Cinemactor Vincent Price) in return for a chance to view some of the collec tor's prizes. For her turn, Mrs. Brown put on exhibition 78 prints, drawings and watercolors and 25 books depicting British military uniforms from Henry VIII to George V, selected from...
...week's end Humphrey motorcades had accounted for two dogs and a pig. Termites fell into the wine during a Congolese banquet, and his entourage brushed their teeth with beer rather than risk the water. Humphrey handed out tickets to the U.S. Senate gallery to Liberian youngsters and implied in Kinshasa that he would seek a second vice-presidential term, promising Congolese President Joseph D. Mobutu to wear a leopard-skin cap on the campaign trail...
...identity, Massey spent a lifetime at home and abroad championing the idea of Canada's "Canadianness"-a nation distinct from its U.S. good neighbor and Franco-British forefathers. In that cause, he gave an added dimension to the largely ceremonial office of Governor-General, using every ribbon-cutting, banquet, trip and state function to insist that "what we do should have a Canadian character. Nobody looks his best in somebody else's clothes...
More than Rogers, Hope has become the friend of politicians and statesmen, tycoons and sportsmen. These are the public figures at whom he tees off at a banquet or on television; yet they cannot wait to tee off with him on the links the next day. He kids the starch out of them, and they feel better for it; a needle from Hope becomes an emblem instead of a scar...