Word: banquets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Attlee, made a ritual of rising, walking along the table to clink his glass in gracious courtesy with each delegate. He toasted world peace, Anglo-Chinese friendship, Queen Elizabeth. Chou even attended a banquet given by British Charge d'Affaires Humphrey Trevelyan, whose very presence Chou had ignored for more than a year...
...tourists then flew on to Shanghai, Red China's biggest city, which Attlee said reminded him of London. At a great civic banquet, Clem Attlee toasted "the stabilization of world peace," and added, "Like you, we ardently desire to promote peace . . . The more you get to know people, the more you find things on which you agree." He was heartily in favor of more East-West trade. More skeptical newsmen, however, taking a look around Shanghai (where the British once had several hundred million dollars invested), found the few remaining British businessmen desperately consenting to all kinds of confiscatory...
...clear, cool evening last June, Diane and Herbert Rang were married in Los Angeles. After the ceremony at the West Adams Presbyterian Church, the young couple, both of Korean descent, led the way into an adjoining hall for the wedding banquet. There 300 guests sipped fruit punch and consumed platefuls of traditional Korean fare: tuna, popped rice, olives, tea and rice cakes...
...nights that he steps out, Willie outfits himself from a big wardrobe; his closet bulges with expensively tailored sport coats, sharp slacks and monogrammed shirts, but very few ties. Willie hates ties, wears them only for such special events as his increasingly frequent TV and banquet appearances. "He's not flashy," says Mrs. Goosby, "but my, is he fussy. He won't wear anything that's the slightest bit wrinkled or spotted...
...Chinese), and the two men got along fine. Rumors spread persistently through New Delhi that Nehru and Chou were drafting a new "peace-for-Asia" plan, based upon a series of nonaggression pacts between Red China and Southeast Asian nations such as Burma and Indonesia. At a great state banquet Nehru and Chou spoke happily of their "traditional friendship." Said Chou: "The age when outside forces could decide at will the fate of Asia has gone forever." Said Nehru: "Destiny beckons ... I hope our two countries will stand for peace ... as they have done through the past 2,000 years...