Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Presidents wife has wanted to. Eleanor Roosevelt, for one was more interested in social workers than social life. Bess Truman set a good table, but threw humdrum affairs. Mamie Eisenhower tried, but lacked the flair. At a 1959 state dinner for Premier Khrushchev, she had Fred Waring in to entertain. While Waring's Pennsylvanians belted out Dry Bones, a translator mumbled "de words of de Lawd into the ear of a befuddled Nikita: Anklebone connected to de shinbone, shinbone connected to de kneebone...
...Claribel Berckemeyer, the stately, attractive wife of Peru's ambassador, offers French cuisine, fine wines and lively parties at a palatial embassy set on 25 wooded acres in Chevy Chase. She and Fernando, a wealthy aristocrat who went to Notre Dame but speaks with a British accent, often entertain younger members of the New Frontier-the Bobby Kennedys, the Paul Fays-and the guests sometimes form conga lines or twist...
When it comes to hustling for European defense contracts, no one outhustles California's Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Its salesmen entertain grandly offer luxurious junkets to the U.S., bombard defense officials and parliamentarians with facts and figures to show that their products are indisputably the best. Lockheed likes to operate through people who have an "in." In Britain it hired Prince Philip's longtime buddy Michael Parker. In Bonn, its chief lobbyist is former U.S. Army Major General Richard Steinbach, who until June 1962 was chief of the U.S. military advisory group in Germany...
...liberal in the country, but the Suzy Affair changed things considerably. That was a scandal of consequence; in its wake a shocked administration abolished weekday visiting hours. But in New Haven, where girls must be imported from the hinterlands, it's the weekend that counts. Yale men may still entertain women guests in their rooms on weekends, from 11 a.m. till midnight on Friday and Saturday, and until 7 on Sunday. Sign-ins don't exist, and enforcement is laughable...
Brown and Columbia have practically no hours at all. Brown students may entertain girls in their rooms from one until 6 on Sunday afternoons if they observe tiresome rules requiring doors to be ajar and at least three out of four feet to be on the floor. The same rules apply to Columbia, where women may visit for three hours on alternate Sundays. Brown almost got daily parietals last May, but students rioted on the eve of a corporation meeting called to consider the proposal. The corporation, annoyed, tabled the question indefinitely. Unlike their colleagues at Brown, Columbia men have...