Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Royalty Is Always Punctual. So off stepped Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon to yet another stop in last week's Washington-to-Manhattan round of receptions, rubberneck tours, shopping expeditions, luncheons, cocktail parties, teas, dinner dances and dinners without dances. Though their digestions may have suffered, their smiles were undimmed, the lips stiff and upper throughout...
...next night Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson kept up with the Katzenbachs by inviting 140 of the "most important" to dinner and dancing at the White House. Lyndon set the tone of the evening with some advice to Tony that was not exactly news to the Princess' husband. "I have learned," the President said on his 31st wedding anniversary, "that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she is having her own way. And second, let her have it." Whereupon the tall Texan paired with the little...
...unlighted intersections throughout the blacked-out area, countless volunteers?many of them college students ?took over the job of directing traffic. (In Manhattan, the most prominent surrogate cops were a brown-robed Franciscan friar and an elderly boulevardier in a dinner jacket.) Acting on their own, men and youths patrolled neighborhood stores to prevent looting...
...Because bonding makes two-faced suits and coats possible, designers may soon be turning themselves inside out to give customers two costumes in one. Instead of going home to change, the day may come when a businessman can arrive at work in a grey worsted, leave in a black dinner jacket. All that stands in the way is the trivial matter of how to make it fit both ways-and what to do about the pockets...
...businessman who wants to entertain can do best in Buenos Aires, where a night out for four (with dinner, theater and a nightclub windup with champagne) costs only $34. For the same kind of fun in Tokyo, where a geisha costs $27 per evening, a spender can run up a staggering $250 bill without really trying. New York does not run much less. The best place to rent a comfortable apartment is in The Hague, Lisbon. Montreal or Oslo, where such accommodations can be had for less than $120 per month. In Tokyo, however, a three-room furnished apartment rents...