Word: banqueting
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...Friday night, 300 guests gathered in the Kennedy Library's vast Glass Pavillion for a reception and black-the banquet illuminated only by dozens of tiny shotglass candles and the glittering lights of the skyline across the harbor...
Television may do for businessmen what a Borgia banquet did for casual dining. From Dallas' oily antihero J.R. Ewing on down, most businessmen on television are depicted as crooks, amoral wheeler-dealers, criminals with Mafia connections, cheats, employers of professional arsonists and, worse still, jerks, clowns and buffoons. With the exception of Margaret Pynchon, the gracious owner of the Los Angeles Tribune on Lou Grant, nowhere on prime time is there anyone remotely resembling such constructive businessmen as Joseph C. Wilson of Xerox, Edwin Land of Polaroid, Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors or Thomas Watson...
...swim banquet, held last night at the Harvard Club of Boston, co-captains Bobby Hackett and Geoff Seelen formally relinquished their positions to sophomores Ted Chappell and Larry Countryman...
Amid the pomp and circumstance of an Olympic-like parade around the Yale track and a post-meet banquet, a combined Crimson and Eli women's squad competed against a partial strength Oxbridge team of nine women in an abbreviated and unscored nine-event matchup...
Afterwards, the teams feasted together at a banquet, and with the kind of ceremony that properly surrounds storybook competition, drank toasts to the rulers of each other's countries...