Word: harrimans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Truce talks open in Paris between U.S. and North Viet Nam. Averell Harriman represents...
...hole for Manhattan's sporting set (Toots' last place was shut down in 1971 for nonpayment of taxes). Bending elbows and ears at the festivities were some 1,000 friends and customers, including Secretary of State William P. Rogers, Ed Sullivan, Rocky Graziano, Frank Gifford, W. Averell Harriman, and Larry O'Brien (who held up a T shirt emblazoned: I'M A DEMOCRAT-DONT BUG ME). "Hello, Big John!" Toots roared as he bussed fellow Restaurateur Jack Dempsey. The former champion answered with a playful right to the jaw. Said one guest as the mid-afternoon...
Typical of the Institute is the Institute Advisory Committee which meets once or twice a year to see what is going on. The Committee consists of such luminaries as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass), Jacqueline Onassis, Averill Harriman (D-N.Y.), Sen. John Cooper (R-Ken.), Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), Lord Harlech, Vernon Jordon of the Urban League. The Advisory Committee has little to do with the operations of the Institute and rarely criticizes its activities. The rationale for its existence seems obscure, but as May explained, "They're awise people...
...Stade family are renowned horsemen. Skiddy's father, who was also named Skiddy--"He was what you called in those days a gentleman jockey," Skiddy Jr. says--founded the Museum of Racing in Saratoga, N.Y., along with Averill Harriman...
Still in the air was Sargent Shriver's charge, first leveled two weeks ago, that Nixon had "blown" a chance to negotiate peace at the beginning of his term. Averell Harriman and Cyrus Vance, two Paris negotiators during the Johnson regime, supported Shriver, claiming that North Viet Nam's withdrawal of 22 to 25 regiments from the two northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam during the summer and fall of 1968 "signaled its willingness to reduce the level of violence." "Bunk," said Rogers...