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...honeymoon in Africa, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton decided to look in on a couple of the kids. Their destination: the twelve-acre farm in Wales belonging to Michael Wilding Jr., 23, Liz's son from her second marriage. Michael and his girl friend whipped up a vegetarian banquet for the prodigal pair, complete with a local soup in honor of Welshman Burton. Mother Liz pronounced the meal "one of the best," which was also her judgment of a rock group, Solar Ben, in which the versatile Michael plays trumpet, flute and guitar...
...women had cooked huge pots of cabbage with raisins and cream of tartar. They had baked strudels, tarts, all kinds of fruitcakes. The burial society gave a banquet and mead was poured like water. One of the elders who had special merit in the eyes of the community was honored by having a pumpkin with lighted candles placed on his head, and being carried on the shoulders of the people to the synagogue yard. Bevies of children, the holy sheep ran after him baaing...
...team's annual banquet this week, three members of the Harvard crosscountry contingent were honored...
Coming after two decades of severely strained U.S.-Egyptian relations, however, the new era of good will did have its bad moments. At a banquet given by Sadat at Washington's Anderson House, Ford raised his glass of sparkling Catawba juice and said, turning to Sadat, "To you, and the people you represent, the great people of the government of Israel." Amid gasps, Ford could only say lamely, "Egypt... excuse me." Later the two leaders reportedly laughed politely over the slip. Sadat's press secretary, Tahsin Bashir (see THE PRESS), cracked a barbed joke, "Perhaps President Ford...
Clyde Bowen, captain of the Statler's banquet department and a Roxbury resident, said taat he and his friends voted for White. Bowen said he does not object to working in the hotel's support staff for Timilty's headquarters. "I worked for Louise Day Hicks four years ago," he said. "You work what...