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Scheel returned Gromyko's hospitality by throwing a lavish luncheon for both delegations. In the middle of the luncheon, Scheel, who had just received a picture of his baby daughter yawning, whipped out his wallet to show Gromyko his little German namesake...
...lining the Soviet Premier's parade route were perhaps one-tenth the size of the ones that welcomed President Nixon to Bucharest last year. Ceausescu stayed away from the formal events, including his own government's official reception and the treaty signing. He entertained Kosygin at one luncheon and spent three hours in private talks with him. As one Bucharest official noted: "We observed protocol as is befitting a sovereign nation...
...Ford's chameleon-like moods, one element is constant: his blunt-spoken manner. The standout example is a statement given to Booton Herndon, author of an adulatory biography. During one luncheon interview, Ford announced that he had written "a whatchamacallem ?a preface" and handed it to Herndon, who published it as a passage in the book. Its text: "I'm not interested in this damn book. I'm only cooperating because I've been asked to. I don't care if anybody reads it or not. [Signed] Henry Ford...
Bruce has been twice married and is the father of four children. He personifies the careful diplomat. A Democrat, he successfully served under four Presidents. When he retired last year, a group of the nation's most prestigious foreign policy practitioners gave him an elaborate luncheon. He sat through the customary paeans, never raising an eyebrow or twitching a facial muscle. It was a show of the kind of reserve that led Nixon to pick Bruce as chief negotiator at the Paris peace talks...
Labor. The pedagogic style stays with him. At a National Press Club luncheon in Washington, for example, he began his answer to a question about the economy by observing: 'There are three increments in the analysis." He candidly admits an obvious truth: "I am not a phrasemaker...