Word: fetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parliament and one government," demands Obote, who feels that tribalism had hopelessly fragmented his country. But Obote has also tried to win the people over. As a conciliatory gesture, he let almost 3,000 criminals and political prisoners out of jail to join in the ühuni (freedom) anniversary fete. He has won over many former opponents, including Freddie's brother, who now echoes that "tribal jealousy and friction have brought Uganda to a standstill...
...townspeople accept the servant girl's disappearance, but the sister does not. She begins to grill her stepbrother, who hysterically runs to his parents for aid. To ensure her silence, the father consents to let her marry a man whom she loves-and he despises. At the Greek fete, as Anestis drunkenly dances in celebration of his stepsister's wedding, the servant's body mysteriously rises to the water's surface and begins floating to shore, bringing with it the dissolution of the house of Canalis...
...drawing room nor swallow the warm water contained in the finger bowls." Well that doesn't hardly happen any more. Still, the Woman's National Democratic Club decided that it was time for a new primer for capital hostesses and published Party Diary: Planning Ahead and the "Fete" Accompli, a 100-page guidebook anthologizing social notes and comments from the city's experts. "To be a success in Washington, you need comfortable shoes," advises outdoorsy Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Hostess Gwen Cafritz purrs modestly: "With my little dinners I like to feel I am helping to save...
...Silver Baton. Symbolic were two holidays last month. One was Tito's 75th birthday, when shopwindows blossomed with red-draped pictures of him, nestling among West German cameras and British textiles, and when 60,000 people gathered at twilight in Belgrade for a fete climaxed by the presentation to Tito of a silver-plated baton that had been relayed for a month through hundreds of Yugoslav towns and villages. The other holiday was May 1, Communism's traditional red-letter day, when there were no military marches in the Yugoslav capital, and Tito wasn't even...
...Since my father founded the gallery, naturally I have a personal interest in it," Paul Mellon said. The Mellons decided that it was up to them to fete the occasion, and soon they were clearing out their homes in New York, Washington, Cape Cod and Virginia to fill twelve rooms in the National Gallery with 246 art works. No other U.S. family could have brought out from private stock such a handsome salute, ranging over 100 years of French painting from a Corot to a Bonnard. As they went on view last week, Mellon was delighted: "I haven...