Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first press conference in nearly three months, Ike was concerned about voter apathy. Perhaps, he mused, the people, far from being disenchanted with his Administration, are too well-satisfied to have much interest in the elections. The following evening, the President spoke at a banquet given by the Citizens for Eisenhower Congressional Committee. There was nothing apathetic about his audience, which interrupted him 20 times in 25 minutes with applause...
...year-old Jawaharlal Nehru told a farewell press conference in Peking last week. He heatedly denied that his trip had revealed "serious differences" between him and the Chinese Communists, conceding only that "India's basic approach is somewhat different" from Red China's. At a farewell banquet, Nehru grandiloquently hailed Mao Tse-tung as "Great warrior! Great revolutionary! Great builder and consolidator!", pausing only to add: "May he now be a great peacemaker also...
...skill, and, more important, the clean which distinguished the Harvard toot ensemble. . . It takes something extraordinary. . . It takes something extraordinary to inspire college undergraduates these days. It takes something special to get off a death bed and bring down the house as an after-dinner speaker (at a band banquet) with a talk on the Decline and Fall of the Glockenspiel...
...banquet the night before he left, Holland offered a rich, buttery toast to Peron: "A great American, a great Argentine-" Peron ordered out his personal DC-4 to take Holland to Chile, and the Peronista press wrote: "We received Mr. Holland with a question. His attitude these past three days has been a full and satisfactory reply...
Corn from Clem. At the big banquet, in the hot, stuffy Shriners' Murat Temple, Adlai Stevenson, the principal speaker, sweated like a Fourth of July orator. His speech somehow missed the mark with the 1,000 Democratic diners, although Adlai had tried to cut it to their measure. "The Republican Party is so deeply split," he said, "that it cannot pursue consistent policies anywhere . . . Drift, division and demoralization have for 20 months obscured American purposes, discredited American leadership, and heightened the perils and tensions in this tense and perilous world at home and abroad...