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...President and Mrs. Kennedy had just passed the halfway point in a three-day speaking tour through Texas. Kennedy was scheduled to address a luncheon meeting in Dallas and was on his way there when the shooting took place...
...radical right wing, who seemed determined to set her up as a martyr and symbol-like General Edwin Walker. The day before the coup, Millionaire Patrick Frawley, president of Eversharp, Inc., and staunch supporter of Dr. Fred Schwarz's Christian Anti-Communist Crusade, gave a private luncheon for her to meet some of the state's leading conservatives. After that, members of the superconservative California Young Republicans offered to pay for her $90-a-day suite at Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel. But Robert Gaston, president of the organization, tested even his own followers by proclaiming: "This...
...generals who had not yet been brought in on the coup, reasoned the conspirators, could be won over by Big Minh right there at the luncheon table; if they refused, they would find themselves virtual prisoners in the plotters' well-guarded headquarters...
Speaking at Barnard Hall after a luncheon sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe International Relations Council, Nehru discussed both the China-India and the Pakistan-India disputes. He said that the border dispute was primarily a side issue; the basic problem was "related to the conflict between the Chinese and the Indian way of life...
...describes in detail the events leading up to his heart attack in Denver in September 1955. "My choice for luncheon was probably not too wise. It consisted of a huge hamburger sandwich generously garnished with slices of Bermuda onion and accompanied by a pot of coffee." Planning to retire right after dinner, he refused a predinner drink. "At least one doctor of repute later told me that if I had then taken the proffered drink, I might not have experienced the heart attack. He believes that older persons-sixty and above-should take one drink, no more, each evening, because...