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...best that the Yorkshireman and the Auvergnat could do was agree to disagree. However, the two leaders did decide to go ahead with the historic, $560 million channel tunnel to link Dover and Calais, and Wilson's wine cellar proved admirably equal to the premier occasion: one luncheon carte included a 1934 Château Margaux and an 1878 Grand Fin Bois...
Preposterous? Jack Javits for President? Or Vice President? A slum-born Jew from the Lower East Side of New York? A luncheon companion and confidant of the G.O.P.'s Eastern "kingmakers" and Wall Street internationalists? A mugwump who backed F.D.R. in 1940 and bucked Barry Goldwater in 1964? An urban apostate who out-Democrats most Democrats? ("If you get any more forward than you are," Hubert Humphrey once kidded him, "you'll be ahead of the Democratic Party.") To the brand of Republican who keeps the conservative faith between elections with readings from Robert Taft and denunciations of Lyndon Johnson...
...know," said Dwight Eisenhower. "That's right," answered Harry Truman, "22 years ago." It had been 2½ years since the former Presidents met at John Kennedy's funeral, and evidently that occasion ended the coolness. This time Ike and Harry got together at a Kansas City luncheon sponsored by an organization called U.N. We Believe. Bantering warmly, the old chiefs were so chummy that Harry's close friend Tom Gavin smiled: "I liked what I saw. I thought it was great. President Truman does...
...Joint Commissioning of ROTC graduates as officers, followed by buffet luncheon for them and their guests. Loeb Drama Center...
...stand up and accept an award for running an airline under "extremely sensitive political conditions"? Yet there was George Doole Jr., Air America's managing director, smiling like a Rotarian and receiving a citation for the line's achievements from Washington's Aero Club at a luncheon in the capital last week. After the luncheon, Doole, a former Pan American Airways pilot, shrugged off newsmen's questions about his company's activities. "One wouldn't know," he said, if any particular contract was actually for the CIA. "If that were the case, they wouldn...