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Toronto's usually crusty Royal York hotel has hired leotard-clad waitresses to serve customers in a new "Black Knight" room, and Quebec's courtly Chateau Frontenac has replaced some Victorian parlors with a smart new cocktail lounge. Is that any way to run a railroad? It seems to be, because these two changes are symbolic of a great transformation that is sweeping the owner of the hotels: the Canadian Pacific Railway...
...International Airport, the President was greeted by a shouting crowd of 2,500, including a corps of red- white-and blue-costumed high school cuties who billed themselves as "Ladies for Lyndon." At the Minneapolis Sheraton-Ritz Hotel, more than 100 Democrats paid $1,000 each for a presidential cocktail party. Later Lyndon spoke to some 2,000 at a $100-a-plate dinner in the Minneapolis auditorium...
...some rubbishy but relatively innocuous nudes, Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Venice, declared the international art show off limits to all priests and nuns. President Antonio Segni thereupon absented himself as official host and prize giver. But this scarcely dimmed the carnival spirits of the cocktail set. Greek-born Iris Clert won the unofficial party-thrower prize by hiring a yacht, tying it up in the Grand Canal, and calling it the Biennale Flottante; inevitably, one of her guests was soon flottante...
...turned up a 4.5% incidence of diabetes among Clevelanders, and Kent and Leonards suspect that the old estimate of approximately 1% for the entire U.S. is far too low. They hope to get a chance to check their hunch next year when the DAC test, with its corn-syrup cocktail, is expected to get a nationwide tryout...
Died. Morris Cafritz, 77, Washington real estate man and builder, known for his 100-acre Parklands housing development and shopping center in southeast D.C., but-best remembered as the rich husband of Gwen Cafritz, who in the '40s and '50s clashed cocktail crystals with Perle Mesta for the scepter of hostess with the mostess until Jackie Kennedy arrived; of a heart attack; in Washington...