Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Verses from the Holy Koran echoed in the sumptuous banquet hall of the garish new six-story hotel that stands almost alone in Pakistan's still abuilding capital of Islamabad. While Britain's Prince Philip and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aram looked on, Pakistan's chief justice pronounced an oath's solemn words. Outside, a 21-gun salute boomed across the green Potwar Plateau. So last week Mohammed Ayub Khan, 57, was inaugurated as Pakistan's first elected President...
...Shared Dislike. At a banquet thrown by Chinese President Liu Shaochi, Ayub announced his intention to serve as "honest broker" between Washington and Peking in search of a negotiated settlement in Viet Nam-despite the fact that neither China nor the U.S. has shown much interest yet in such a settlement. In private talks with Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi,* Ayub sought to promote further trade and, more important, nail down an interest-free, $60 million loan, promised late last year to encourage Pakistani purchases of Chinese cement, textiles and machinery...
Last night at a banquet held at University of Pennsylvania. Harvard's team received the highest squash honor when it was named the nine-man intercollegiate champions. A 10-0 season record enabled the Crimson to win the championship for the fourth straight year...
There were trips to a textile factory, Luxor and the Aswan High Dam. There was a state banquet at which Ulbricht and Nasser exchanged their countries' highest awards. To Nasser went East Germany's Order of the Grand Golden Star for International Friendship, to Ulbricht went Egypt's Great Collar of the Order of the Nile-and, to Ulbricht's wife Lotte, the Great Collar of the Order of Perfection...
...After two months on the banquet circuit, last year's Olympians have been having their troubles in this winter's big indoor track meets. Nobody has even cracked 4 min. for the mile, and the fans are getting to be girl watchers...