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Word: dinners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town of 3,000 on the Colorado River, and Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Lord Mayor of London, was there for the cornerstone laying. Resplendent in black velvet and heavy gold braid and accompanied by his official sword-bearer and macebearer, he was honored by Governor Jack Williams at a dinner for 400, including that noted Tory Barry Go Id water. Next day Jesus Esquerra, an Indian chief whose Chemehuevi tribe once owned the land, presented Sir Gilbert with a robe and headdress and rechristened him "Ha-utu-nu-wu-mu-hwint," meaning "Leader of a Noble People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 4, 1968 | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...agreement would eliminate the coat and tie rule for all meals except dinner. The old rule will be replaced by a "well-defined expectation" according to Dean Glimp, spokesman for the Committee...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Masters, HUC Vie For Dress Ruling | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...MEDICO, the CARE-sponsored health organization that helps develop clinics in underdeveloped countries. Berman met Humphrey in 1954 when he was called to testify on public health problems before a Senate subcommittee, of which the then Minnesota Senator was a member. Impressed with his presentation, Humphrey asked him to dinner. The two became close friends. A modern art buff with an impressive collection of De Koonings, Pollocks and Rothkos, Berman enjoys explaining his paintings to the Vice President, who likes abstract art but admits that he does not understand it. In 1965, when Berman was between careers, Humphrey asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Court Physician | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...mystical renaissance is evident everywhere, from television to department stores. This year three TV series will deal with witches and ghosts. The movie Rosemary's Baby is both demonological and boxoffice. Miniskirted suburban matrons cast the I Ching or shuffle tarot cards before setting dates for dinner parties. Hippies, with their drug-sensitized yen for magic, are perhaps the prime movers behind the phenomenon. Not only do they sport beads and amulets that have supposed magical powers; they also believe firmly and frighteningly in witchcraft. Some of the hippie mysticism is a calculated put-on-as when Abbie Hoffman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THAT NEW BLACK MAGIC | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

...problem is caused by ignorance and custom: the black Southern diet is based on the pig. Southern pigs yield some meat, but that doesn't last long. At pigkilling time--usually near the beginning of fall--families have a few meals of bacon and pork loin. From then on, dinner consists of the other pig parts--the ears, the tail, the chittlins (intestines), and--worst of all--the fatback...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: For Over-All Misery, Alabama Wins Handily | 9/25/1968 | See Source »

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