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Howard S. Levin opened his small fist and a cascade of varicolored business cards fluttered onto his luncheon table. One card identified him as president of Levin-Townsend Computer Corp. Others proclaimed separately that he headed three affiliates: Las Vegas' Bonanza Hotel & Casino, National Equities Inc. and Levin-Townsend Service Corp. "Take them," he told TIME Correspondent Rudolph Rauch last week. "They are all obsolete...
...olive oil!" exclaimed Salvador Dali, surveying one of the dishes at a small luncheon in Nice with two new acquaintances. "It's thanks to olive oil that great painting came into existence, somewhere around the time of Velásquez, I think." After that lesson in the salad days of art, his amused friends, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, dug into the lettuce...
French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann was reminiscing about a luncheon in 1963. The then Ambassador to the U.S., Herve Alphand, discussing the Paris visit of a twice-defeated American politician, advised Charles de Gaulle: "Don't waste your time on him. He has no political status at all." "No, Alphand," replied France's President. "You are wrong. Nixon is a man with a great future...
...with Fall lacrosse. "I was not at the rink; you can't be in two places at once, " he explained. We agree with his reasoning, but in an article by David Golomb, sports editor of the Cornell Daily Sun Harkness is quoted as saying he was at a press luncheon at the time...
Moments before the delegates were scheduled to recess for a luncheon of poached bass at the Italian embassy, Foreign Minister Panayotis Pipinelis of Greece interrupted the proceedings. Waving his hand in the air, he told Italy's Aldo Moro, chairman of the Council of Europe meeting in Paris: "I have something further to say." With that, the small, sharp-featured Pipinelis, 70, announced that Greece would resign immediately from one of Europe's most prestigious political forums. He did not have to explain why. Everyone in the room knew that the first order of business after lunch would...