Word: banqueteers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tables stretched from the 2.3-acre Pan-Pacific Auditorium in Los Angeles to two banquet halls in Washington's Sheraton-Park Hotel for the biggest coast-to-coast dinner in U.S. history. In 43 states, more than 100,000 Republicans turned out for 83 fund-raising "dinners with Ike," at $24 to $100 a plate, to muster up $5,000,000 for the G.O.P. campaign treasury. All got the same no-frills bill of fare ("the kind of dinner that might have been served in a Kansas home around the turn of the century," as the menu...
...nation's "most outstanding educational television station," announced the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation last week, is San Francisco's KQED. For Program Director Jonathan Rice, the plush banquet at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria was tinged with sweet irony. To pick up the first such award in educational TV history, Rice had to pay his own way; KQED was too broke to send him. Back at the studio, a bleak barn of a building near San Francisco's Skid Row, General Manager Jim Day answered newsmen's questions: "Plans? My only plan right...
...against "British imperialism" on the eve of Macmillan's arrival, Nkrumah himself was cordial enough to his guest, treating him to lunch at a picturesque spot, high on a river bluff, carefully cleared of snakes and insects in advance. The two also got on famously at a statehouse banquet with fine wines and pheasant flown in from Britain, and later at a stag dinner given by the British Governor General. But the formal business between the Premiers of Britain and Ghana could be dispatched with brevity; in 5½ days Macmillan and Nkrumah spent only two hours in serious...
Next night at a formal banquet, Nkrumah, unworried by any possible inconsistency, turned to Macmillan and voiced the hope that Britain "will consider favorably any request for further assistance that we may make in the future, particularly in connection with the Volta River project," a $170 million hydroelectric scheme for which Nkrumah would like Britain to lend Ghana half the money. Macmillan's bland response: Britain would follow Ghana's economic needs "with sympathetic interest." He added an oblique comment on Nkrumah's performance the day before: "If we cannot cooperate, but sit down in opposite camps...
Last week, a few hours after a hale and hearty appearance at a banquet in Lewiston, Governor Clauson died in his sleep at 64 - the fourth Governor to die in office in the state's history. Since the state constitution has no provision for a lieu tenant governor, his successor was a Republican, John H. Reed, 38, president of the state senate. Reed was sworn in by Maine's chief justice in a somber evening ceremony in the Capitol's Executive Council Chamber. Said Republican Reed of Democrat Clauson: "He was a much beloved...