Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since British troops burned the capital in 1814. Police and soldiers alike kept their fingers off the trigger, and at week's end Vice President Hubert Humphrey pointedly rewarded troopers who were still on duty in Washington with a special screening of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...
Perhaps. But men-about-town who have already seen the see-through blouse at private cocktail and dinner parties report that, while the first encounter is a head-snapper, repeated exposure dulls the senses. After a few summers of bareness, the most enticing woman a few seasons hence may well turn out to be the one cloaked head to foot in a shapeless North African djellaba...
...Dinner. Apart from that, and Hanoi's natural decision to ban him from military areas, Collingwood was given free access to the country and to its leaders. He talked for more than an hour with Premier Pham Van Dong "who's really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes...
...audience; microphones and material failed regularly; lack of distinction was the order of the night. Hardly anyone could quarrel with Rod Steiger's Oscar for best actor in In the Heat of the Night, but Katharine Hepburn's award for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner seemed simply a sentimental tribute to a career more remarkable than her latest performance. George Kennedy's recognition as best supporting actor in Cool Hand Luke was long overdue. But naming Estelle Parsons best supporting actress for Bonnie and Clyde was only quirky: hers was the least significant characterization...
...March 29, 1952, 16 years and two days before Lyndon Johnson served his notice of noncandidacy, Harry S. Truman appeared at Washington's National Guard Armory, where some 6,000 Democrats had collected for a ritual $100-a-plate Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. For months, the nation had been speculating about whether Truman, at 67, would run for re-election to a second full term, and as the President launched into a give-'em-hell harangue, partisans at the dinner smiled that Old Harry was off and running again...