Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another little lesson aimed at Delhi. At the farewell banquet for Tsedenbal, Premier Chou En-lai smoothly noted that Red China had now solved its border problems on the basis of "peaceful coexistence" with Burma, Nepal, Pakistan and Outer Mongolia, making the point that only two neighbors now remain with whom China has not made a border adjustment: India and the Soviet Union...
Next, Adenauer was the principal speaker at a farewell banquet for Strauss. "I do not say goodbye to you," der Alte told his friend, "but just the opposite. I hope that we will work together even more often in the future and will discuss together things of great importance for our people." Adenauer noted that the ex-Defense Minister had undergone many bitter experiences. Then der Alte concluded with what may well be his own credo, by saying: "But bitter hours are necessary for the formation...
...hour before he entered the guilty plea, Chacharis ended a political career that at one time seemed likely to take him from the sooty back rooms of Gary into greener pastures-almost any pastures being greener than Gary's. A politician who was active on the Kennedy campaign banquet circuit-and who brought in nearly 70% of Gary's vote for Jack Kennedy-Chacharis was once invited to the White House to meet Greek Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis. For a while, the dream of chubby George Chacharis to return to his native Greece as U.S. ambassador...
...peculiar people" call their lead-is the living oracle of God to whom Lord reveals whatever is necessary for the conduct of the church." Last week in Salt Lake City, nearly 500 business and civic leaders, representing Judaism and a dozen Christian churches, gathered at a testimonial banquet honoring the ninth man in Mormon history to be in direct communication with God. He David Oman McKay, 89, a kindly ascetic who has presided over the most astonishing decade of growth that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day saints has ever seen...
...speeches and rah for the discussion! The delegates approved highly of both. As for the other events, the delegates feel that they were unjustly led astray. Since when is "banquet" synonymous with eating a meal that cost little over a dollar, in the Harvard Union, cafeteria style? "Fun an games" were also quite disillusioning. The "games" seemed to consist of paying $.50, for which one received a Monopoly ticket. Upon redeeming this ticket with the youn-man-in-charge-of-drinks, the naive purchaser was handed a glass of slightly flavored ice cubes. The "run" still remains a dark mystery...