Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Happy & Hairy. Though reluctantly giving ground on this issue, Cuba continued to tie itself into tighter knots with Russia and Red China. A delegation from Cuba's government-run Confederation of Labor junketed through China from banquet to banquet and agreed with the Communist All-China Federation of Trade Unions in a joint condemnation of U.S. "imperialist aggression." A Chinese Communist trade delegation to Cuba, headed by Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Lu Hsu-chang, closed a deal with National Bank President Ernesto ("Che"') Guevara to buy 500,000 tons of Cuban sugar each year for five years...
...going to be very, very tough." . . . So great is the affection of Manager Cus D'Amato for his fighter, World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, that D'Amato outdid his customary generosity in giving Patterson a little something befitting the man's rank. At a testimonial banquet in Manhattan, Boxer Patterson, who regained his title in June from Sweden's Ingemar Johansson and plans to defend it in Los Angeles Nov. i, starred in a coronation ceremony witnessed by such fight fans as U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers, New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner...
...wound up on the editor's desk, and once, when an irate woman subscriber complained that her carrier was dropping the paper in a puddle, Editor Allen delivered a fresh copy himself. After putting in a twelve-hour work day, Allen often headed straight for the nearest community banquet, where he managed a few words in the language of the occasion, be it Japanese, Chinese, Korean or English...
...Georgian mansion had seen the day when 30 guests could be seated at the Sheraton banquet table, and when it took a staff of 14 to keep up the house and 18 in the garden. The owner was John S. Phipps, whose father had made a fortune with Andrew Carnegie, and who had built for himself in Old Westbury, L.I., a regal private park for quiet ponds and hemlock hedges. Last week the "guests" were the paying kind who had come to see one of the most delightful art exhibits of the summer...
...marry his best friend's betrothed. The action begins with a furniture-throwing brawl between the bride elect and her drunken groom (the gynecologist having been laid out quite early in the festivities), and ends in a glorious reconciliation, with all three sitting down together to the wedding banquet...