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...largest potential customer in Mexico--the state-owned oil company, Pemex. To prove it could do the work, Molten set out to perform a "feasibility" plan. And to engage Mexico's top environmental officials, it asked U.S. Ambassador Jim Jones, an old Gore ally in Congress, to hold a luncheon at his Mexico City residence. One corporate E-mail to Knight thanked him for "helping us" with Jones and a U.S. agency that granted Molten $280,000 to help finance its study. Jones says he can't recall a lunch but does remember meeting executives of the American firm...
...paddle ball, a skill that evolved into her powerful game of tennis. She admitted no equals in the segregated leagues. And soon her talents were grudgingly admitted by the whites-only tournaments. But even while winning, she was denied rooms at hotels. One refused to book reservations for a luncheon in her honor. She claimed not to care, telling TIME in 1957, "I tried to feel responsibilities to Negroes, but that was a burden on my shoulders ... Now I'm playing tennis to please me, not them...
...During a luncheon in Rome with Italian millionaires, the two Harvard graduates managed to talk themselves into an invitation to a luxurious villa on the Amalfi coast owned by a close friend of the women...
...There was a luncheon a couple of months ago for a visiting scholar," Avery said. "The women's initiative project will benefit similar types of events...
...remarks at the luncheon reception yesterday, Jackson related her experience as a "trailblazer," at MIT, part of a small community of African-American students at the school during the '60s and early...