Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first Negro Cabinet member in a grandiose East Room ceremony illuminated for TV's benefit by 27 spotlights. Johnson used a huge new electronic lectern with hidden microphones and retractable prompter screens that newsmen dubbed "Mother." (One correspondent asked if it could cook Lyndon's breakfast.) When Weaver had been duly anointed, Johnson produced a surprise by announcing that Lincoln Gordon, 52, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil since 1961, would succeed Peace Corps Director Vaughn as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs...
...Those who looked around them at the press conference saw a six-room house. In it, Indira keeps three servants and three golden retrievers. She wakes at 6 a.m., sips a glass of milk as she pores over the morning's papers. At 7:30 she has a light breakfast. Her father would not tolerate fat people around him, and the 5 ft. 2 in. Indira has done her best to remain slim. As Information Minister, she usually received a stream of visitors after breakfast who were seeking darshan (communion) or asking for redress from grievances...
...this brutal and senseless real-life event Truman Capote has built his latest book. It would be hard to imagine a more implausible crime reporter. Though Capote had ventured into non-fiction before, his reputation had been secured by short novels (The Grass Harp, Breakfast at Tiffany's) and stories of such delicacy that their wispy author has been called, among many other things, "the last of the old-fashioned Valentine makers...
...three more volumes are on the way. Shaw was what is called today a compulsive writer; he carried a cloth bag of unanswered correspondence about with him, to be dipped into and answered at any idle moment-"scrawled in trains, between acts, in fragments to amuse you at breakfast," he wrote. They will astonish today's telephone generation, which normally does not get letters at breakfast even if it has time for breakfast...
Those who are still living in the brick dorms, however, seem to have lost their incentive to move off-campus. "I just can't see hiking through the snow to breakfast," one junior commented...