Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown's public image hardly fits the diplomatic pattern. Ebullient and explosive, he managed to so rile Nikita Khrushchev during a Labor Party dinner in London a few years ago that the Soviet leader ended up praising the capitalistic Tories as by far the easier of the two British parties to get along with. On the evening of President Kennedy's assassination, Brown emoted tearfully on a London television show about his friendship with Jack-and got a bad press for letting down the stiff upper lip in public. But those who know Brown better testify that...
...like $30,000 a year, he lives in a 12-ft.-by-15-ft. hotel room in downtown Minneapolis, does not smoke, drinks only an occasional beer, didn't have a car until the fans gave him one, and his notion of a big night is a steak dinner and an early movie-followed by ten hours of sleep. His only extravagances are relatives and clothes. He sends money to the folks back home, runs up big phone bills calling them. The clothes are only partly for him. "I fill all my closets with suits," he says...
...Nugent were, like Luci herself, a beguiling blend of the gay and the sentimental, the hectic and the religious, the Texan and the presidential. There were parties every day, starting with a reception for the diplomatic corps, progressing through a Western-style cookout to a black-tie dinner dance on the wedding eve, where President Johnson sentimentally declared in a toast that he was "as proud as a man can be when his youngest daughter is doing the most wonderful thing in the world: beginning a life with the man she loves...
...When it developed that Priscilla Kidder of Boston, who designed the bridesmaids' and bridal gowns, has a nonunion workshop, the job of making the dresses was transferred to a plant in Lowell, Mass., so that the garments would carry union labels. When family friends in Milwaukee planned a dinner party, word got around that champagne would be served, although the legal drinking age there is 21. The hosts served apple cider instead...
...FOOD. The custom of three full meals a day has been established only since 1890. Anglo-Saxon tradition knew only two meals-breakfast and dinner-and in the 16th century, dinner was eaten at 11 a.m. While discussing diets, the rabbi rejects the notion that the Jewish and Moslem prohibition against pork started because of fear of food poisoning. The pig was taboo from earliest times because it was worshiped by primitive peoples who also sacrificed it to their idols and ate it in sacred meals. This made Jews, in their passion for monotheism, reject...