Word: buffet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...event. For out-of-town visitors who arrived early, TIME Publisher and Mrs. Bernhard Auer held a small, informal cocktail reception at Manhattan's Regency Hotel. The following day, under acres of bright-colored tents, Time Inc. President and Mrs. James A. Linen gave a garden party and buffet dinner at their home in Greenwich, Conn., for more than 100 cover subjects and their TIME escorts and special guests. On the big evening at the Waldorf, Francis Cardinal Spellman began the program with an invocation that made staff members stand straight. "Come into the midst of us, Holy Spirit...
Kirkland: Cocktails in common room, in the afternoon. Buffet supper. Two dances, with big-name fast and slow bands...
Royals and commoners had a rip-roaring time. Highlight of the pre-nuptial festivities was a wingding for 2,000 guests in Windsor Castle's Waterloo Chamber, which is only slightly less spacious than the battlefield itself. Fueled by a lavish buffet, 1,600 bottles of a pleasant, non-vintage champagne and rivers of stronger stuff, the guests twirled and twisted until breakfast. To a man, the roistering royals approved warmly of Alexandra's match. "Thank goodness," whispered one, "she's not marrying one of those awful double-barreled German names...
Choice of Punches. On Lincoln's Birthday, traditionally an occasion for Republican speechmaking, President Kennedy held the center of the stage with an 800-guest White House reception and buffet dinner to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. "Hypocritical," cried the upstaged Republican National Committee. Among the President's guests: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, and, of course, the most prominent Negro members of the Administration-Robert C. Weaver, head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and Carl Rowan, Ambassador-designate to Finland. Menu: shrimp Creole, curried chicken...
...inauguration day, Russell promised to "give all our people the opportunity they truly deserve," pledged that "we shall work out our problems peaceably, according to our standards of justice and decency." Later, for the first time in memory, Negroes were invited to mix with whites in a buffet reception on the lawn of the governor's mansion. Several hundred showed...