Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba made it clear that his country would not go along with extreme measures against the West Germans. And Morocco's King Hassan II, in Cairo for a state visit, did not even mention the German problem in his speech at an official dinner. Fact was, all the Arab states were probably willing to withdraw their ambassadors from Bonn, but many were reluctant to go much farther. Only the extremist bloc of Egypt, Yemen and Iraq, possibly joined by Syria and Algeria, seemed likely to go the whole...
Things did not go half badly. After lunch and a look at the Wall with Mayor Willy Brandt in Berlin, Wilson went on to Bonn, where he sat down with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard for an informal dinner that went on until midnight. Out of it came 1) an assurance that Erhard would look into the matter of Buying British, and 2) a book entitled A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne-a gift from Ludwig to Harold...
Moon Over Miami. The Yankees used to spend spring training chasing the moon over Miami. No more. Warned Keane: "A cocktail before dinner is all right. Getting plastered, no." He hired former New York Giants End Andy Robustelli to run the Yanks' calisthenics. "Now I know how the Cardinals won," wheezed Mickey Mantle. "They outconditioned everybody else...
...libertarianism of the 1960's by invoking century-old war horses: the rise of Science, the deterioration of Faith, the pressure for Sexual Equality. In short, here is a man, with all the prestige and influence of a Harvard psychiatrist, who displays the analytic powers of an after-dinner speaker for the Hoboken Kiwanis...
...were called "Happy Hot Dogs," from the Latin felix for happy. Then came "the 1939 death of Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, who had officiated at Frankfurter's marriage to Marion A. Denman, the daughter of a Congregational minister. F.D.R. phoned Cambridge, where he caught his friend dressing for dinner. Standing in his underwear, Frankfurter heard the "warmth-enveloping" voice asking him to succeed Cardozo. "All I can say," muttered Frankfurter "is that I wish my mother were alive...