Word: banqueting
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...American delegation in Cairo's El Salam Hotel, the three Presidents seemed to revert to form in their toasts. Carter talked of his personal relationship with Sadat. Ford spoke straightforwardly as a representative of the American people. Nixon gave one of his oblique rambling tributes to the banquet waiters and servants, those not famous or "infamous." Protocol had seated Kissinger next to 14-year-old Sam Brown. With a mixture of humor and wounded pride, the former Secretary of State remarked that he had not really traveled 13,000 miles to talk to,a kid, delightful as he might...
...farmer unearthed a strange item in the Syrian sands: a snarling lion carved from gray basalt. He dug a little further and found a ritual basin ringed with marching warriors and a banquet scene. The pieces ended up in the national museum at Aleppo...
Shortly after midnight last Wednesday, five cases of Dom Perignon 1970 champagne (price per bottle: $100) were uncorked in a banquet room of the Hotel Du Pont, located in the same gray granite building as Du Pont and Co.'s headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Chairman Edward Jefferson had gathered some 60 top advisers, secretaries, chauffeurs and the pilots of the company's jets to celebrate Du Pont's victory in the greatest takeover struggle in American corporate history. Only 160 miles to the north, in Stamford, Conn., Conoco executives met in Chairman Ralph Bailey's office...
...enthusiastic partisan crowd of 2,000 that gathered last week at a fund-raising banquet in Chicago for Republican Governor James R. Thompson, and the guest speaker took full advantage of the forum to lash out at Democratic critics of his tax-cut bill. "Our proposal is not a 'rich man's windfall,' as some have falsely charged," said President Ronald Reagan to applause. "It is fair, it is equitable, and it is compassionate...
...vigorous former Presidents, two former Vice Presidents, six former First Ladies, scores of former Cabinet officers and literally hundreds of their lesser aides and consultants. Some, like Jimmy Carter, have been discreetly silent. Nonetheless, the has-beens form an army of sorts that marches through the hearing rooms. the banquet halls and the panel shows. leaving its public assessments of Reagan and its private disagreements with what he is doing...