Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...News at Lunch. In the end, the Young Turks and the advocates of toughness won. On the first ballot, Heath polled 150 votes, Maudling 133, and 15 votes went to a third candidate...
Heath thus got an overall majority of two but fell 28 short of the 15% winning margin that the rules require. A second ballot was thus in order, but Maudling, reached at lunch with fellow directors of his bank, saw that a clear choice had been made. In the interests of party unity, he telephoned Heath his congratulations and withdrew his own candidacy...
Such a move would, of course, torpedo Desai's chances over the next two years, and he promptly attacked it as "a negation of democracy." The impact of his charge was quickly dissipated: as Desai ended his speech before the hushed house, the chair ruthlessly adjourned for lunch. A few hours later, Kamaraj was reinstated as Congress president...
...addition had transferred thousands of dollars to his twin brother Ali in London. The end came when Amin rented a summer villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Alexandria. Police planted intelligence agents among his servants, closed in when Odell, who had rented a villa nearby, showed up for lunch fortnight ago. Amin was jailed, and Odell was questioned for an hour, forced to turn over what police claim was Amin's last report-20 pages of handwritten notes. Finally, he was released because of his diplomatic immunity...
...first time that Marc Chagall "sat" for this week's cover story was at lunch with a group of editors in a dining room on the 47th floor of the TIME and LIFE Building. The artist was enchanted with the view of Manhattan, particularly the bright mosaics of neatly parked automobiles on the roofs below. "Très Chagall," he said, and wished he could paint them right then and there. Instead he ultimately agreed to do a self-portrait for the cover...