Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stiff-lipped but studiously correct, Chancellor Raab got the final shocker at a hotel banquet in Klagenfurt. "Neutrality is no mountain fastness," Khrushchev warned. "The fight for peace concerns all people. The presence of rocket bases in northern Italy-and if they are used against the Socialist countries-would presuppose a violation of Austrian neutrality." For its own sake, he said, Austria should warn Italy against "playing with fire." The clear threat: if war should start, Russian troops would cross the Austrian border without compunction...
...bitter West Virginia primary). But Jack Kennedy's presidential campaign, indeed his whole political life, has a quality rare in U.S. political history. He speaks with the voice of the remarkable Kennedy family, and the talkative Clan Kennedy speaks with authority for him from platform to parlor, from banquet to back room...
Table Hoppers. In Thetford, England, a general and two other senior guests of honor arose at the end of a formal military banquet, started to leave the room, found that the table was following them because a practical joker had lashed their ankles to its legs...
...Night before at a prededication banquet, Brown had made a major-league booboo by saying smilingly that he looked forward to an all-California World Series between the Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers...
...opinion. The change was the work of De Gaulle himself. After laying a wreath at the statue of Marshal Foch, France's World War I commander, De Gaulle suddenly turned away from the waiting VIPs and strode into the watching throng, began pumping hands. At his first-night banquet in the state ballroom of Buckingham Palace, De Gaulle displayed unabashed emotion and proud remembrance. Thanking Britain for assuming the burden of war after the fall of France, he recalled the "most precious encouragements" he had received from the royal family. Turning to Queen Elizabeth, De Gaulle said with feeling...