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Blood & Money. The heaviest support came, naturally, from the 5,720,000 American Jews. At a luncheon meeting in New York's Waldorf-Astoria on the day the fighting started, $1,000,000 a minute was pledged during one quarter-hour. That night in Chicago, another $2.5 million was raised. Next night in Atlanta, $1.1 million more was forthcoming. The pace was so fast that officials often had no idea how much they had collected. In New York, where the United Jewish Appeal set up an Israel Emergency Fund, Executive Vice President Herbert Friedman jotted down a flood...
...most urgent tasks of law and government today is to attain state legislatures fashioned in a way that will enable them to deal with legislation," he told members of the Graduate Society and the Law School Alumni at their annual luncheon in Harkness Commons...
Probably Five. At a luncheon later in the U.S. Embassy residence with reporters and businessmen, Nixon forgot the problems of Latin America long enough to offer an unstartling prediction about 1968: "There will probably be five candidates: Romney, Rockefeller, Percy, Reagan and myself. Two will probably fall by the wayside in the primaries." But, he also observed diplomatically, "regardless of who wins the election, there will only be one winner: Latin America." That said, Dick Nixon packed his bags once more and headed for Brazil and Mexico...
Incongruous Interlude. His speech over, Westmoreland returned to the White House for a luncheon in the East Room with 26 Governors (among the missing: the three Republican Rs-Rockefeller, Romney and Reagan), 77 House members, 38 Senators, eleven Cabinet officers, the Joint Chiefs, the secretaries of the individual services and Presidential assistants...
...January, a group in Harlem invited the young Brazilian to be their guest of honor at luncheon as "the most popular man of the Negro race in the world." That was a touch of hyperbole, although there is no doubt that Edson Arantes do Nascimento, 26, otherwise known as Pelé, is the most famous athlete in the world-at least outside of the U.S. His soccer team, Santos, was in New York when the Harlem invitation came, Pele explained in a TV interview last week in São Paulo. "I learned that this had connotations of the racial...