Word: grand
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...banquet circuit, from white tie to rolled sleeves, from the White House to Manhattan, to San Francisco, Des Moines and Pittsburgh. In San Francisco, demands for tickets to the Commonwealth Club's banquet were matching Franklin Roosevelt's historic appearance in 1932. Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria grand ballroom was booked solid for the mayor's lunch (and a visiting convention of dentists, with a prior booking for the ballroom, was not too sure it was going to give up its rights) and again for a dinner sponsored by the Economic Club...
...Iron Curtain this summer, the Emperor came home counting his blessings like beads on a string: $5,000,000 from the Czechs, $7.14 million from the Germans, $10 million from Tito, plus a passel of economic advisers who now virtually manage Ethiopia's economy, and a grand prize of $100 million from the Russians, together with 125 Soviet teachers and technicians already on their way to Ethiopia...
...fairly easy to produce, and juries-under the spell of trend and times-tend to award them their prizes. The jury at Chicago's Art Institute gave Richard Talaber, 26, the top prize for just such a picture. At Boston's elaborate summer Arts Festival, the Grand Prize went to a sculptor, Gilbert Franklin, for his safely modern Beach Figure, clean-lined and anonymous as a newel post. But the public has yet to acquire the jurist's inhibitions. Critics see form first in a work of art; the average layman sees content. At Boston...
...save it. Guterma, then boss of the F. L. Jacobs Co.. which controlled the Mutual Broadcasting System and at least twelve other corporations, found a likely moneybags in the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo, always willing to pay for favorable publicity. Last week a federal grand jury in Washington charged that Guterma, 44, collected $750,000 from Trujillo to disseminate "political propaganda" and failed to register as an agent of a foreign power. The grand jury also indicted as defendants Hal Roach Jr. and Garland L. Culpepper Jr.. former officers of Mutual Broadcasting...
Miss America Pageant (CBS, 10-12 p.m.). For all those who can stand it once more, the bathing beauties will go through the fiction that they also have other massive talents. Cliff ("Charlie Weaver") Arquette as Grand Marshal may make it all worthwhile...