Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consensus in Chaos. So deeply riven are the Democrats that they are even having trouble organizing a party fund-raising dinner scheduled for June 23 in Los Angeles, with Johnson topping the bill and his campaign fund the principal beneficiary. The White House, apparently seeking consensus even in chaos, dispersed responsibility for selling the $1,000-a-couple tickets among 30 cochairmen, honorary chairmen and committeemen of all factions, many of whom are not on speaking terms...
Though a goal of $500,000 has been set for the get-together, a California party official admits: "We'll be lucky to get $200,000." Whatever the turnout, the Peace Action Council of Southern California, which claims some 60 member organizations, promises that the dinner will at least set one new record. When Johnson makes his first political appearance in the Golden State since 1964, says the group, he will be greeted by "the largest antiwar demonstration in history...
Yearbooks will be distributed Friday at the following locations. Harvard: House dining halls, lunch and dinner. Radcliffe: Commuter's Lounge, basement of Hilles Library...
...rented villa on the Riviera or, of recent years, to a bungalow at Marbella on the Spanish Costa del Sol. Autumn used to be reserved for hunting weekends, but since an eye operation in 1965, the duke no longer shoots. The duke and duchess give and go to small dinner parties with such friends as the Eugene de Rothschilds, sometimes attend the theater or ballet on gala occasions. Each December they slip into London, where they stay at Claridge's, for Christmas shopping, returning to Paris for the Christmas party of their household staff...
...years, discriminating hostesses have seated their dinner guests at place settings crafted by Josiah Wedgwood Ltd. Catherine the Great of Russia had 952 pieces created for her summer palace near St. Petersburg; Queen Charlotte of Britain in 1765 was so enamored of her cream-colored earthenware that she commanded that it henceforth be called "the Queen's Ware." Only recently the Queen of Thailand placed her order for 400 pieces of powder blue Columbia...