Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks: the insouciant wink-and-nudge of a joker who likes to imitate other people over the telephone, and who once threw an entire hotel into chaos during a concert tour by sneaking around the corridors early in the morning and changing all the breakfast orders...
...what they consider American arrogance. "However much I like the Americans," says a Dane, "I must admit that they suffer from a kind of superman mentality." Europeans also resent the fact that U.S. firms deal brusquely or not at all with trade unions, discontinue such traditions as the German breakfast break on company time or the Spanish siesta, and, unlike paternalistic European firms, lay off workers in recessions. When ITT recently considered buying Belgium's second best football team in order to get its stadium for employee recreation, cynical Belgians quickly predicted that ITT would undoubtedly cut the team...
...Senator arrived at Logan Airport at 8:30 a.m., attended a closed-door breakfast meeting with 30 Democratic state representatives, held a press conference, met privately with supporters, and departed for Washington...
Lester S. Hyman, chairman of the Democratic State Committee of Massachusetts, who was not invited to the breakfast session, appeared a half hour after it began "to say hello," and hastily departed...
Last week Producer Merrick, who modestly describes himself as "the most vital force in the theater today," decided once again that mortality is sometimes the better part of vitality. He decreed that Mata Hari would have to be shot before opening on Broadway. Last year he similarly closed Breakfast at Tiffany's, losing a mere...