Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left the palace. To thin out and speed up the flow of papers and persons through Catete's corridors, he personally supervised a wholesale redistribution of office space. He trimmed the Catete staff from 586 to 392, shut down the three palace kitchens that had been serving lunch (on the house) to some 200 officials. The new rule: each functionary gets one hour off for lunch, at his own expense...
...typical day the President himself, accompanied by one adviser, rode to a restaurant in a stock-model Chevrolet, ordered a businessman's lunch of black beans and pork. Habitually hatless for the past 25 years, he wore one of the four Homburgs he bought in London during his preinauguration trip. "Nobody will recognize me with a hat on," he explained. Nobody...
...nights are biting cold; the days usually hot. The Cloetes are rationed to two meals a day, skipping either breakfast or lunch, but Bill frequently stops to stalk "some meat for the boys." It is against "the code of the White Hunter" to shoot game from the car, but at a distance of about 200 yards, "there was the usual bang...
...sped off downtown for what diplomats call a tour d'horizon, an overall review of common concerns. The President welcomed Eden on the White House steps. When the visitor asked: "How are you?" Ike, aware of big-eared reporters, cupped his hand and jokingly whispered his reply. During lunch (steak and apple pie). Britain's Eden remarked that the U.S. handling of Marshal Bulganin's request for a non-aggression pact (TIME, Feb. 6) had struck him as "admirable...
This week, as Hollywood's trade talk has long prophesied, 20th Century-Fox's Production Boss Darryl F. Zanuck, one of moviedom's best-preserved (53) boy wonders, stepped out for what was billed as a four-month lunch. Announced Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras: "It is contemplated that the details of an agreement for an independent production unit to be headed by Mr. Zanuck will be worked out between him and the company...