Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boss. Eastern's chief, Malcolm A. Maclntyre, 54, a former Under Secretary of the Air Force (1957-58), will become president and next in command to "C.R.," who is a vigorous 62. Eastern's pioneering chairman, Eddie Rickenbacker, 71, who lately has been more active on the banquet circuit than in the board room, will probably fold his wings. And somewhere, keeping a weather eye on the finances, will be Laurance Rockefeller, 51, who, as Eastern's biggest shareholder (with 94,000 of the 3,235,000 shares), was the driving force behind the merger. Rockefeller will...
...running a restaurant." says the New York City Ballet's Choreographer George Balanchine. "I have to serve a different dinner every night, and I can't overburden the kitchen. But once a year I want to give a banquet." Last week Balanchine served up the biggest banquet of his career to an audience that paid up to $100 a head. The occasion: the premiere of Balanchine's most ambitious ballet, A Midsummer Night's Dream...
Appearing at a Whittier, Calif., banquet in honor of his 49th birthday, Republican Richard Nixon last week called upon both parties to "fight the extremes of the far left and the far right." The extremists are a small minority, said Nixon, "but their influence is far greater than their number because they are so active and so noisy...
...banquet honoring the 70th birthday of the father who once wanted him to go into the beauty-parlor-supply business, the New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein, 43, won bravos from 800 guests by re-creating a work he had played when he was 13 at his piano debut at Boston's Temple Mishkan Tefila. "At the time," recalled the protean composer conductor, "I played variations of the song in the manner of Chopin, Liszt and Gershwin. Now I will play it in the manner of Bernstein." Then, as a proud Samuel Bernstein ("You don't expect...
Meeting over the hardware at a Milwaukee banquet honoring them as the Associated Press's athletes of the year were Wilma Rudolph Ward, 21, the world's speediest woman, and Roger Moris, 27, HR 61. Roger was reportedly busy haggling for a 100% pay boost; Wilma, just married to a Tennessee State schoolmate, seemed intent on homemaking ("Most of the Russian women runners in the last Olympics had two or three children, and that didn't bother them...