Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word, and at times am compelled to speak slowly and cautiously if I am to enunciate clearly." In every other respect, however, Ike today seems as chipper as ever. This week, in appreciation of his present vigor and past feats, Republicans will gather to salute the former President at banquet tables from Alaska to Connecticut. The occasion: Dwight Eisenhower's 75th birthday...
...smell it (some companies already produce aerosol bombs that give secondhand cars that new-car atmosphere). The sharpest prod to coffee sales is the smell of freshly ground beans. A hotel has ordered spray cans full of roast-beef aroma to step up banquet-hall trade; an artificial-flower company is spraying its false blooms with essence of the natural thing. Now, sniff this page. Catch that scent of fine coated paper and printer's ink? It's the genuine article...
Strain was noticeably absent this time. On the evening of his arrival, Nasser was welcomed at a banquet and reception for 700 guests. Feisal and Nasser sat alone together at the head of the table and dined off gold-rimmed plates. Away from the banquet table things went equally well. In less than 48 hours the two Arab potentates reached full agreement, thus enabling Nasser to leave on schedule for his current visit to the Soviet Union. The announcement was made in the chandeliered main hall of the palace, where the marble floor is carpeted in green-the color...
...Kremlin banquet last week, Russia's Premier Aleksei Kosygin noted that it had been 33 years since a Turk ish head of government had last visited the Soviet Union. Turkey's Premier Suat Hayri Urguplu obligingly replied that he would not try to analyze "the critical period of distrust in our rela tions," since it was now over with. He added, "We are very pleased to be wit nesses to the gradual and confident de velopment of mutual understanding." Though filled with diplomatic cliches, the speeches did reflect the cautious new warmth in Soviet-Turkish relations that...
After the banquet came a three-hour visit with Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung and President Liu Shao-chi. Malraux suddenly produced a letter for Mao from Charles de Gaulle. In Paris no one would say whether the letter was in Malraux's pocket when he left, or had reached him in Peking after he had advised the French embassy that things were going well...