Word: guested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAPAN To Please a Guest Like Connecticut schoolgirls on Commencement Day, the geishas of Japan gather together on the Day of the Seven Herbs at the end of Japan's New Year feasting to receive their awards for a year well spent. Last week, as the fragile and mannered geishas of Gion, one of Kyoto's most famed geisha districts, trooped into the auditorium of their two-story training academy for the annual ceremony of a new geisha year, the balconies were ringed with the faces of teachers, music masters and teahouse madams smiling as benignly at their...
Face the Nation (Sun. 1:30 p.m., CBS). Guest: Britain's Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell...
...Head Porter Chasper $10,000 to be handed out when the Aga Khan needed pocket money; the hotel would provide the Aga Khan (an Ismaili Moslem) with a compass, so he could determine the proper direction to face while praying. Once King Albert I of the Belgians, a hotel guest, greeted Host Badrutt: "You are King of St. Moritz. I am King of the Belgians. I greet you as a colleague...
...supply of rich vacationers, forced the Badrutts to tighten up; the Kulm was sold to Swiss Businessman Albert Ernst. But the Palace is still run by Hans's widow Helen, and two sons, Andrea and Hansjurg, and a new generation scrawls its names across the guest book: Henry Ford II, Rita Hayworth, Barbara Hutton. For its 400 guests the Palace maintains a staff of 300, including 40 cooks, who daily turn out half a ton of fancy meats and 1,000 pastries. The wine cellar is stocked with 60,000 fine bottles, the tanks with 800 live trout...
General Wheeler put his team together in an atmosphere of popular confusion and political outcry that sorely tested even his engineer's vocational optimism. The British had taken exception to his statements that as a U.N. official he was only Nasser's guest in Egypt, and had accused him of letting the Egyptians delay the clearance job. The Egyptians had displayed all the sensitivities of the injured and assaulted, had insisted on accepting the benefactions of their U.N. rescuers on their own terms...