Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inside Happenings. In the hope of nudging other Republicans to the same conclusion, Romney detoured the poverty pilgrimage long enough for a chat with New York's Mayor John Lindsay and a 21-hour political strategy dinner with Governor Rockefeller, the Michigander's strongest backer. Though he could write a Baedeker on New York's slums and the avoidance of riots, Lindsay decided not to join Romney on a trip through Bedford-Stuyvesant and Harlem. "I think it is better if he goes alone rather than be inhibited by the presence of other officials," the mayor said...
...lives at home in the family's modest military quarters near Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport. There Thieu, who likes flowers, dabbles some evenings with a trowel, or walks through the compound with an air rifle, shooting birds that are cooked and served to dinner guests. His real love is weekend fishing with cracked crab bait in the Saigon River or in the South China...
...pick up sounds from every angle. One player improvised his own percussion by borrowing a woman's slipper and rapping it on the platform. After four hours. Conductor Karlheinz Stockhausen finished Ensemble and, with many of his musicians still playing, led them off to a hotel for dinner...
...entrenched, long autonomous European chieftains took some winning over when Geneen went to Brussels to meet them. "I talked to them for hours," recalls Geneen, "but none of them said anything. So I asked why. The answer was that years ago somebody talked and got fired." At dinner with one European executive, Jean Bourgeois, Geneen made it clear that he expected his people to start talking. Says Bourgeois: "I was drawing diagrams all over the tablecloth for an hour. He just kept on asking questions...
...Exterminating Angel. In a vast town house, a group of Mexico's beautiful people attend a formal dinner party. Clacking across marble floors, exchanging big smiles and small talk, they radiate the feeling that throughout their hermetically sealed world, all is well...