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With Cleveland's mayoral election coming up this fall, the telegrammed invitations to dinner at Mayor Carl Stokes' were not unusual. After cocktails and a light buffet, Stokes asked his 50 guests -bankers, business executives, political intimates-into the living room. "I have a speech to make." They stood in stunned silence as Stokes announced that he would not run again. He made his decision public in a television address later that night. "I have spent the last 14 years in local government; I have been privileged to serve in high office during America's most trying...
...highest finish ever for a Harvard squad and that's what the boys and I really wanted most of all." coach Bob Harrison said at a post-game buffet presented by the Harvard Club of Rhode Island...
...they must be elected over and over again; generally those constituencies that give such automatic approval are in rural, one-party districts or are dominated by big-city machines. In either case their Congressmen are unlikely to be responsive to change and sensitive to the strong currents that buffet junior and more vulnerable colleagues from swing districts...
There he participated in a warm ceremony welcoming 140 men and women of 37 nationalities who were about to become American citizens. Pat Nixon gave each new citizen an American-flag pin like the one the President wears in his lapel. Then all-including Candidate Smith-adjourned to a buffet table adorned with a large spun-sugar elephant...
...commemoration began with a buffet dinner of roast beef, cold cuts, and a stuffed pig complete with apple that was prepared and served by Bruno, once the personal chef to Field Marshal Rommcl in the Africa Corps during World...