Word: conference
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table as chairman of the meeting, he told his foreign colleagues that he had full power to negotiate currency values, and asked if they did too. Some did not; French Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing had to telephone President Georges Pompidou in Paris at least twice to confer about the changing situation...
Dayan also told Teveth a tale out of school. In September 1956, on his way to Paris to confer with the French on plans for that year's invasion of Egypt, Dayan alighted from a French bomber at Bizerte. As the base commander shook hands with Dayan, his Gallic glance fell on a pair of female legs groping helplessly from the underside of the plane for a ladder that was not yet there. "We choose secretaries with prettier legs than those," cracked the Frenchman. Moments later Golda Meir, then Foreign Minister, emerged from the plane...
...confer with him all the time and I think he can be trusted when he says he is not going...
...workers" and called the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 35-man executive council into session to issue a detailed list of criticisms. Other union executives?notably Leonard Woodcock, whose 1.4 million-member United Auto Workers left the A.F.L.-C.I.O. fold three years ago?flew to Meany's headquarters in Washington to confer. Labor Secretary James Hodgson, the Administration's belated emissary, also stopped by to pay his respects. He was one of the few White House men who managed to get the last word in during a slanging match with onetime Journeyman Plumber Meany (see box, page 10). After being labeled...
...virtue of powers which we have invented," the baroque lettering proclaimed, the trustees of San Francisco's Millard Fillmore Institute were delighted to confer on any applicant a variety of "honorary and meretricious" titles ranging from "Doctor of Generosity" to "Doctor of Pinochle Sciences." All he needed was $10. A Latin motto made the point clear: Ad populum phaleras, ego te intus et in cute novi' (Loose translation: "You may think you're hot stuff, but we know you, buster...