Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Were it not for Nieman Reports--perhaps the best publication of its kind--the Fellows might easily be confused with one of Harvard's Final Clubs. At a recent fund-raising dinner, the current class of Fellows and a long list of former ones got together for drinks, steak, St. Emilion, and after-dinner jokes. There the same strained conviviality, the same overly boisterous camaraderie that abounds at club punches and initiations...
...November 21 Clifford and Neustadt reported their progress to the President-elect and his staff at Palm Beach. After dinner, Kennedy briskly divided up the group, taking Clifford and Sorensen into one room, asking Neustadt to wait in another room, Shriver in still another. When Neustadt's turn arrived, Kennedy raised questions about some of the things his advisers had told him he must do as President -- receiving Congressmen, for example, whenever they requested an appointment. Neustadt said that there were few imperatives in the Presidency; he should feel free to work it out in his own way. He then...
...religious controversy swept Harvard when a CRIMSON article attacked then University Preacher George A. Buttrick for refusing to allow a Jewish student to be married by a rabbi in Memorial Church. It took a month for the Corporation to reverse the ruling and end the debate that had sustained dinner table conversations for weeks. In the eight years since religion as dinnertime conversation has rarely lasted through the potatoes, and its campus representative, the United Ministry, has in that time had to get used to talking largely to itself...
...leaving the choice to the President, he also left the G.O.P. free to criticize Johnson, no matter what he did. Even so, Johnson was so delighted by his old friend's support that he seated Dirksen at the center table at last week's formal White House dinner. Mansfield was parked in a corner. Fulbright was not invited...
...faculty, who earned good marks for bringing in $5,000,000 in emergency state aid to ease the school's $27 million deficit, but hardly had time to tackle basic problems of high costs and declining income from gifts; of a heart attack after leaving a fund-raising dinner; in Pittsburgh...