Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington. But not in New York City, where there are 41 times as many Jews (1,800,000) as there are in Tel Aviv. Within 20 hours, city hall operators logged 1,677 calls, all but 19 demanding that Mayor John Lindsay call off a scheduled dinner for the King. Candidates in this week's primary elections quickly denounced the hawk-beaked desert monarch. Nearly every major Jewish organization pronounced itself outraged. Protested Dore Schary, national chairman of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League: "We believe it unseemly for New Yorkers to say that...
Lindsay-who had won major support from Jewish voters in November -retreated to Sardi's, where he put in a post-midnight SOS call to Dean Rusk. Lindsay suggested that Feisal could "clarify" his remarks, or stay away from the dinner with a diplomatic illness, or, all else failing, agree to a mutual cancellation. The King was not interested. Next morning, the day on which Feisal was to be feted in New York, Lindsay canceled the affair, which, by some stroke of wit or innocence, was to have been held in the Blumenthal Patio of the Metropolitan Museum...
Questions of Understanding. Like Bonaparte, De Gaulle quickly discovered that the mere invasion of Russia -however glorious-is not tantamount to victory. On the night of his arrival, after a dinner of caviar, cucumber soup, and jellied deer's-tongue, De Gaulle struck his main theme: "France would like to see the harmful spell [of the cold war] broken and, at least as far as she is concerned, a beginning of new relations toward relaxation, harmony and cooperation with the East European states. Paris, in talking of this to the East, necessarily addresses itself to Moscow. The re-establishment...
...planes picked up Martin Luther King in Alabama during the Selma march, flew him to a Cleveland speaking engagement, then back to the march. When Trans World Airlines President Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. was unable to get a TWA flight from St. Louis to Washington for a dinner meeting with Lyndon Johnson, an EJA plane picked him up and got him there. EJA got a luminous letter of thanks from Tillinghast...
...never stops long enough to be ticketed for its frequent wrong turns. In the title role, France's mononymic comedian Bourvil has too much worldly charm and intelligence to make a convincing jerk, yet he is hilarious all the same as he takes a sexy Roman manicurist to dinner and absently dips his fingers in a water glass when she asks to hold his hand...