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...Hostess Mesta. On the second floor, in one of the Majestic's air-conditioned suites, was globe-circling Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, onetime Minister to Luxembourg. She never played hostess to a more difficult crowd. "One of the men," she said later, "sprayed me all over with tear gas. I went back to my own room and closed the door. It was very frightening, because stones were coming through the windows. In a few minutes they were pounding on my door and starting to make a hole in it with their knives. There was only one thing...
After two hours under siege, Hostess Mesta and her luggage were rescued by the U.S. chargé d'affaires, but 50 other Americans in the hotel lost all their belongings. The Majestic was left without a pane of glass, a bed or a bidet intact...
...sunny garden party at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and on the elm-shaded lawn, children darted while their parents sipped champagne. Suddenly, all unheralded, a squad of stocky men in baggy dark suits, all doing their best to look affable, marched into the garden and greeted the hostess, Mrs. Charles E. Bohlen, wife of the U.S. Ambassador. Beaming at their head was round-polled Nikita Khrushchev, 61, First Secretary of the Russian Communist Party. With him was an imposing array of politburocrats: goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin, smiling professorially; First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the clever Armenian who masterminds Soviet...
...Fife and Drum Corps from Stony Creek, in sleeveless red jackets, black leggings, tricorn hats and fawn-colored breeches, played 18th-century music. One of the stories-doubtless apocryphal-circulating about the Hale homestead concerned a Harvardman who visited the place recently, and, after examining everything closely, approached a hostess with a question. "Who," he asked, "was Nathan Hale...
...Hotel to prepare the way for the flood of actors, floor men, engineers and assistant directors. Extra microphones, zoomar lenses, commercial props and TV slides were shipped down from Manhattan. One camera was even spotted atop the Washington monument for a bird's-eye view of the capital. Hostess Francis had to hop to rehearsal in Washington, back to New York for a Sunday performance on CBS's What's My Line?, back to Washington until Thursday, then to New York again for her ABC show, Soldier Parade...