Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ladder. On his return to Peking, Malraux had a long talk with Premier Chou Enlai, followed by a banquet at which Malraux and Chen Yi tossed flowers at each other. Of Red China and France, Malraux said, "It's true that our social systems are different. It is also true that both of us have had to battle against a powerful aggressor who, weapons in hand, came to fight in a place where he shouldn't have been." Malraux may have meant Japan's invasion of China, but Peking was free to interpret his words as meaning...
...added a master's in architecture at Harvard's Graduate School of Design ('39). Squeezing the most out of his time, he sleeps about one night a week on planes while traveling 300,000 miles a year. Even office parties do double duty: before the annual banquet for his 50-man staff and their wives-at a Tabler-designed hotel-there is always a tour from boilers to bedrooms, and a Tabler lecture on hotel techniques...
...banquet under heaven is endless...
Chinese used their U.S. dollars that Washington last week announced the end of the banquet. The cut-off of economic assistance to Formosa will mark the first time that any U.S. aid program in any underdeveloped nation has accomplished its ultimate aim-which is, after all, to put itself out of business...
Conspicuously absent was the French ambassador, who obviously reflected the pique of Charles de Gaulle. The banquet was in honor of the 150th anniversary of Waterloo, and le général does not agree with the British that Waterloo is a part of history that needs commemorating. Encouraged by Waterloo's restaurateurs, souvenir hawkers and the local tourist office, the British, West German and Dutch embassies in Belgium had planned a spirited parade and re-enactment of the battle on the original site twelve miles south of Brussels (which was part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...