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...visit to France in 15 years was a regal affirmation of the current warm state of Anglo-French relations. As President Georges Pompidou discreetly noted in his welcoming speech, "some hesitations and difficulties of an old love affair begun in 1957" had occurred in the meantime. Later, at a banquet Her Majesty remarked: "We may drive on different sides of the road, but we are going the same way." The same way, of course, is a united Western Europe, and with the Queen's visit Britain seemed all but signed, sealed and delivered into the Common Market...
Three other seniors won athletic honors at Monday's banquet. Fencer Geza Tatrallyay won the Francis H. Burr Scholarship, for combining academic and athletic excellence; heavyweight oarsman Peter Sutton won the Jack Fadden Award for achievement in overcoming "physical adversity"; and baseball manager Hollis McLoughlin was named the first recipient of the Managers Trophy...
...Rumanians, however, were obviously intent on keeping the visit on a low key. Mrs. Meir was greeted by Premier Ion Gheorghe Maurer instead of President Nicolae Ceauşescu, and quickly driven off in a Mercedes limousine for an afternoon of preliminary discussions. At a state banquet given by Maurer, she openly pressed her hosts to arrange face-to-face talks between Israel and Egypt-a request that was pointedly ignored by the Rumanian press next day. At a return banquet that she gave for the Rumanians, Mrs. Meir served up fresh strawberries and avocados flown in for the occasion...
...ONLY GOOD THING that came of Harvard football for me was when the players and a couple of the trainers came up to me and told me that they felt I had been wronged during the season and merited an honest shot at the varsity. At the final football banquet. Chuck Krohn--sitting at a table away from me--got up and said loudly to some old Harvard Alums sitting with him: "You want to know who the best back on the team is? He's Sidney Williams, that black guy sitting over there. And you know what? They wouldn...
...tactical decision by Advocate editors, at the lampoon castle rather than at the Advocate Building. The move did not, finally, confound a crowd of well-wishers who had heard Mr. Mailer mention a "libation" that was to follow his address. And so we found Mr. Mailer in the Lampoon banquet hall surrounded by a crush of unexpected undergraduates...