Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...League last spring for betting on his own games, the Green Bay Packers' Golden Boy Paul Hornung automatically lost his fat $25,000 salary. So what happened to the tarnished hero? While his mates knock heads on the field this fall, Hornung will be riding high on the banquet circuit, raking in money from endorsements and jamming radio and TV programs. Barring an upset stomach or laryngitis, he should make more than $40,000 this year-only a slight comedown from last year's $50,000 total...
...likes parties, and he has a real flair for pre siding over them. Last week he made big plans for starting the fall social season. Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah and his Queen Homaira were in town. In their honor, there was to be a black-tie banquet in the Rose Garden - with fireworks, a Marine-drill-squad exhibition, music by some Air Force bagpipers and ice cream souffle for dessert. But it rained that day, and the President moved the affair into the State Dining Room...
...crusaders in search of new causes, ban-the-bombers (including that foolish sage, Bertrand Russell), all of them joined in the London streets by joyriding beatniks. Amazingly, they were also joined, in spirit, by Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy Leader George Brown, who chose to boycott a banquet for the visitors-which could only raise questions about the mental health and stability of British politics...
...chain helps to pull in the guests; Hilton operates a globe-circling reservation system of 126 sales offices, which produce 25% of his room business. Each hotel keeps a rigid watch on costs and sends daily reports to Hilton headquarters, which knows within 24 hours whether a banquet in Cairo or Hong Kong made money. To tighten costs, two teams of executives surveyed 15 Hilton hotels in the U.S. last year, came up with findings that will save the chain nearly $2 million. All this has helped to bring the Hilton chain's labor bill down...
...cavernous, thatch-roofed banquet hall of Addis Ababa's Menelik Palace, 30 colorfully garbed African heads of state and 2,000 other guests, all back-slapping and jovial, were feasting at the board of their medaled host, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. As waiters in green-and-gold livery moved among food-laden tables, the throng fell to on caviar, roast chicken, spiced lamb and watt (spongy Ethiopian bread), washed down with hundreds of gallons of French wine, Ethiopian honey wine, and vintage champagne. Then, as the clock ticked past midnight, everybody sat back to watch the Emperor...