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...London, Chairman of the Board Andrew Heiskell and a group of colleagues were hosts at a luncheon for 43 Americans currently at Oxford as Rhodes scholars. Heiskell, who is a member of the board of trustees of Bennington College, the University of Chicago and the Institute of International Education, among other educational posts, found himself a bit surprised by the occasion. What was to have been a midday meal and some exchange of ideas turned into a four-hour debating session. Most of the questions aimed at Heiskell involved the U.S. position in Viet Nam, and in part they reflected...
...stays hungry. The town's only eating place, which used to be rather less exclusive than the Taliaferro county jail across the street, has changed its name from Liberty Café to Bonner's Private Club Inc. In Jackson, Miss., the Belmont Restaurant, long a favorite downtown luncheon spot for state officials, lawyers and businessmen, has become the Belmont Club Inc., boasts an electrically operated door, a membership committee-and the same old menu. Maylie's Restaurant, for 90 years a noontime hangout for New Orleans judges, lawyers and city hall officials, now styles itself Maylie...
...United Auto Workers, called for an end to "strikes that endanger the very survival of society." Said he: "We cannot live in a situation where a few workers who are denied their equity can paralyze an entire community." Speaking to some 1,000 top industrialists at a luncheon of the Economic Club of Detroit, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s No. 2 man proposed that a tripartite committee of industry, labor and Government be set up to find a "new mechanism and a new procedure" to settle labor disputes in public-service facilities...
Could it be that Charles de Gaulle had ever been young? At a Books and Authors luncheon in Manhattan, former CBS Paris Correspondent David Schoenbrun was talking about his new biography, The Three Lives of Charles de Gaulle, and told one anecdote that didn't get into the book. The general, said he, had a reputation as a ladies' man once, even used to pursue the same demoiselles as his former comrade-in-arms Marshal Henri Pétain. Well, a friend asked the general in later years if the story was true. "Ah, oui," De Gaulle answered...
...press release and recorded radio and TV spots, Hatfield drove to the farm community of Silverton (pop. 3,967), where 16 years earlier he had made his first campaign speech as a candidate for the state legislature. He held no formal press conference, went instead to a Kiwanis luncheon, where he barely mentioned his Senate candidacy. "I shall seek," his press release said, "to be a Senator of all the people." The announcement carried no indication of the candidate's party affiliation...