Word: lunch
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...week, Britain's most indefatigable tourist began his rugged tour as the first member of the British royal family to visit India since independence. Though his trip grew out of an invitation from the Indian Science Congress, attending scientific meetings was the least of his chores. There was lunch with the Maharajah of Jaipur, a picnic tea at the deserted Moghul city of Fatehpur Sikri, a moonlight visit to the Taj Mahal, a visit to Chandigarh, the city designed by Le Corbusier, and a polo match in Delhi. From Bombay, Bangalore, Madras and Calcutta, Philip will inspect everything from...
Buzzing for Press Secretary James Hagerty, President Eisenhower indicated an invitation from Washington's correspondents to join them at lunch at the National Press Club. Said Ike: "I'd like to do this. Do you think they would want me to come?" Press Club Member Hagerty knew full well that they would-and within minutes he was busy setting up the President's most successful public appearance in months...
WHEREVER he went-and, as it turned out, whatever he said-Anastas Mikoyan got rave notices from his cold-war-weary U.S. audiences. "Forthright," was the word used by Detroit industrialists after lunch with Mikoyan. "Refreshingly frank," glowed a U.S. State Department official. But cold print throws another light on Mikoyan's forthrightness and frankness. Traveling quote by quote with Anastas Mikoyan...
Others were less enchanted. Republican Styles Bridges skipped the lunch, reported loss of appetite because the "fawning over Mikoyan makes me sick to my stomach...
Most of the nation was at lunch, but in their restaurants and homes Belgians fell silent as the youthful voice, how and then shaking slightly with emotion, came over the radio. Later, 4,200 miles away in Léopoldville, blacks and whites heard the same words blaring over the loudspeakers of sound trucks. Lean, spectacled King Baudouin had taken it upon himself to explain in person his government's long-awaited program to give independence to the Congo, that vast land 80 times the size of Belgium, that was once his great granduncle's personal fief. Only...