Word: escorters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been elegantly introduced to Washington society fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 29), Diane ("Dede") Buchanan, 18, captivating daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan, last week bestrode the world. Occasion : Manhattan's glittering seventh annual International Debutante Ball, where Dede as official U.S. representative joined an Annapolis escort in a shoeless demonstration of a U.S. folk dance that De Rham never taught...
...left behind him a stern injunction: "Don't call any doctors." But the family, worried by his ashen appearance, ignored the order. After the doctor arrived, Joe Kennedy, still wearing a sports shirt and golf shorts, was taken from bed and driven in a private ambulance with motorcycle escort to St. Mary's Hospital, where the chaplain gave him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church...
What to do? In desperation, Mrs. Stone consults an aristocratic procuress, a ludicrous old mascaraed barracuda who calls herself La Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales (Lotte Lenya). The lady provides Mrs. Stone with a handsome young escort called Paolo (Warren Beatty), who has big shoulders and a small title. No fool like an old fool. She falls absurdly in love with the boy, belabors him with costly presents and senescent lust. In the end, of course, he gets tired of it all and runs off with a Hollywood cinemama who offers him more fun, and more money...
...Kennedy's hardest working supporters during the 1960 campaign, Reuther had every right to expect that he would be placed on the committee assigned to greet President Kennedy at the labor convention. But Meany deliberately left Reuther's name off the committee list, assigned him instead to escort a subsequent convention visitor-Eleanor Roosevelt...
...coalition: Communist Prince Souphanouvong, "Neutralist" Prince Souvanna Phouma, and pro-Western Prince Boun Oum. Boun Oum invited the others to meet with him in the capital city of Vientiane; they agreed, on condition each could bring no troops and 30 advisers, but Boun Oum would allow a total escort of only 120, soldiers included. And so it went...