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Katzenbach wa sat Harvard for the closing luncheon of the Institute for Police Chiefs, an intensive 3-week management-training course. he made a very short speech for the chiefs, and then presented them with their diplomas. By the time of the press conference, he was perspiring heavily in un-air-conditioned Kresge Hall...
Died. Margaret Case Harriman, 61, author, who grew up in Manhattan's Hotel Algonquin (her father owned it), became a sort of midtown Malory by chronicling in The Vicious Circle and Blessed Are the Debonair the activities of the 1920s' Algonquin Round Table (a luncheon gathering of such literary jesters as Alexander Woollcott, Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman), also contributed articles to Vanity Fair and a series of notable theatrical profiles to The New Yorker; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...White House luncheon was finished, and it was time for toasts. Said the President of the U.S. with a twinkle in his eye: "Someone suggested, Mr. Prime Minister, that I begin this toast by saying: 'My good disassociates' "-a reference to Harold Wilson's "dissociating" the British government from the U.S. bombing of the Hanoi-Haiphong oil-storage areas. In reply, Wilson complimented the President on his sense of humor, then turned soberly to his most pressing problem: Britain's economic crisis. Said Wilson, grimly declaring his resolve to beat it: "If we have to fight...
...time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France. In any case, he gave De Gaulle a reception that was far beyond what protocol requires for an ordinary working visit. Honor guards and anthems were in profusion, and Erhard's luncheon toast was especially cordial...
...bags, and an angry crowd of Filipinos hollered "Go to hell!" and "Get out of our country!" John Lennon and George Harrison were roughed up against a wall, and Ringo was pushed down and kicked. What had the Beatles done? They had failed to show up at a scheduled luncheon with the wife of the President, Imelda Marcos. (The lads later claimed they were never invited.) Even a formal apology by the British embassy couldn't cool Philippine tempers. And the boys did nothing to help their image when they finally returned to London. "I didn't even...