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...Four ambassadors meeting in Berlin to negotiate the city's status had developed a ritual of retiring after each session for a long and lavish luncheon at the residence of one or another. In an effort to accomplish more business, it was decided that the Americans would cater the meal during one meeting. The arrangement did little to promote détente, however. The mistrustful Russians brown-bagged their own caviar and vodka. The Americans-chacun son goût-served hamburgers. No agreement on Berlin is in sight...
...Jewish Faculty Luncheon Group, organized about two years ago by Dr. Gerald Caplan, professor of Clinical Psychiatry, is composed of about 50 faculty members who meet about once a month to hear speakers on various issues...
...even if the conference taught them as much about what Harvard is like today as Kissinger's 20-minute "off-the-record" luncheon address taught them about foreign policy, there was a distinct, serious effort to shed the old-school-tie and partying atmosphere that has often characterized such affairs...
...time to be resolutely optimistic-and once again turn the spotlight toward Bok. Burr graciously acknowledged each compliment on his choice, but shortly turned to a small notice board to find the room number for the luncheon. It crumbled to the floor as he touched...
...Rivers was clearly out of tempo. His detractors were many, and their criticisms were often justified. In recent years. Rivers found his role of defending the military made more difficult by the military itself, and would get coldly furious at the blunders of admirals and generals. At a luncheon given by Rivers and attended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the entire civilian hierarchy of the Pentagon and major defense contractors, a guest observed half in awe, half in criticism: "I have beheld the military-industrial complex, and it sits on the right hand of L. Mendel Rivers." Rivers would...