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...Miami, where both were vacationing, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had a cordial chat over medium-rare steaks in a local bar, also adjourned to Nixon's private villa for a New Year's toast...
Scotch & Democracy. Mlle. de Beauvoir did not like the taste of whisky, but at one point she drank Scotch until 3 in the morning "because Scotch is the key to America." She was astonished at the "sudden warmth and cordial simplicity" of Americans, and "American generosity" left her "feeling ashamed." In fact, she liked Americans so much that she wrote: "How I regretted that I could not feel more generously towards a country where the reign of man asserts itself so bravely...
...Trees, Six Parliaments. This week Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and a party of ten royal attendants set forth* on a 30,000-mile trip through her Commonwealth. It will be no mere royal joy ride. It will be the Queen's job to reestablish cordial acquaintance with countless thousands of her subjects all over the world. She will be required to preside graciously at half a hundred state balls, garden parties, luncheons and banquets, at eleven investitures, 133 receptions and 27 children's displays. She will open six Parliaments, lay seven wreaths, unveil three memorials, plant...
...added, "The cordial welcome that President Pusey gave to John Mason Brown's generous project is bound to be the prologue to better things...
King Paul suggested, in deliberate but perfect English, that "Our country gave the idea of freedom to the world and the United States has given its meaning unity." Finishing his speech with an expression of gratitude for his cordial welcome at Harvard, the King, with his party, followed director John P. Coolidge '35 on a tour of the museum...