Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along the streets to see him and cheer in the 90° heat. When he arrived at the Presidencia, he paused for the inevitable photos, then went inside, took a heavy, carved-mahogany chair at a long table in the banquet hall. The main and strange order of business: formal exchange of autographs among the American Presidents, each one presenting to the others a folio of his country's postage stamps. Eisenhower was clearly tired; as the proceedings wore on, he clasped his hands tensely in front of him. Said one aide: "He's gotten more exercise today...
...addition to the Summer School program, a semi-formal dance, will take place a week from tomorrow, on Friday, August 3, at the Harvard Union. Tickets for the event cost $1.50 per couple; George Graham and his orchestra will provide music...
According to the Grays Hall office, "semi-formal" means simply that "women can satisfy their penchant for dressing up, while men can fulfill their desire to dress down...
...Approved after five minutes' discussion and sent to the House a watered-down version of the Bricker Amendment contained in a bill (sponsored by Minority Leader Bill Knowland) requiring the Secretary of State to show the Senate, besides all regular treaties requiring formal ratification, the full texts of all hitherto secret executive agreements entered into by the President with the heads of other governments. Said Ohio's John W. Bricker: "A step in the right direction...
...from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and most important, the U.S. Bolivia, El Salvador and Peru planned to send their presidents-elect. Indications were that at week's end, when the guests get together for the first formal meeting of the two-day conference, at least 17 chief executives and presidents-elect* would be on hand to lend glitter to the largest collection of heads of state ever to baffle a protocol officer in charge of dinner seating...