Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montgomery Street financial district to give him a roaring welcome. He was there to give Dick Nixon a boost in his campaign for Governor; if there was ever any doubt about Ike's enthusiasm for his Vice President, none remained after he spoke at a Cow Palace banquet. "Several months ago in Denmark," said Ike, "I observed that one of the biggest mistakes of my political career was not working harder for Dick Nixon in 1960. I urge all of you, and I urge all Californians, not to make the same mistake this year. Richard Nixon has served...
Scholar of Education. In this tradition, the dean of deans has long been William DeVane. In a poem for a 1960 Yale Daily News banquet honoring DeVane, former Harvard Dean McGeorge Bundy (now a White House janizary) described...
...while they talk. During President and Mrs. Kennedy's state visit to Paris in 1961, Jackie was unfolding the story of her life when she asked, "You realize. General, that my family is of French origin?" De Gaulle exclaimed drily: "Well now, so is mine!"* At the same banquet, Jacqueline Kennedy bubbled: "You, General, who have known so many interesting people in your life, tell me, which one had the greatest sense of humor?" De Gaulle's deadpan reply: "Stalin, Madame...
...Commonwealth officials and avert a flatly hostile final communiqué. Recruiting Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to help with the lobbying, Macmillan exerted all his considerable charm at small meetings, between sessions, at the evening receptions, even at Queen Elizabeth's banquet for the Commonwealth leaders in Buckingham Palace...
...round-the-clock operation, Purdue's Memorial Union complex runs twin dance halls, 16 bowling alleys, banquet facilities for 1,500. It has 254 hotel rooms-and grosses $1,743,000 a year. The till fills with regular proceeds and student fees that average about $4 a semester. To handle such business, N.Y.U. last year launched a two-year graduate course in "college union management...