Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep making them more exciting." But among those who do not agree is Martin Luther King Jr., and his preparations for 1964 are well under way. "More and more," he says, "I have come to feel that our next attack will have to be more than just getting a lunch counter integrated or a department store to take down discriminatory signs. I feel we will have to assault the whole system of segregation in a community...
Like any other elderly party off to London for lunch at the club or a spot of Christmas shopping, the squire of Birch Grove boarded a first-class railway carriage at Haywards Heath station near his home in exurbanite Sussex. Curtained by the Times, he rode in upper-crust anonymity into London's Victoria Station, fumbled absentmindedly for his pass at the ticket barrier, and left the station on foot. His destination this time was not 10 Downing Street or Admiralty House, but 12 Catherine Place, where Harold Macmillan stayed last week with his son Maurice and daughter...
...easy confab over coffee, or perhaps a whisky highball. Last week's impromptu get-together was the second such for White House newsmen. The President has also paid his social respects to most of the syndicated political columnists. Last week, officials of the three television networks were his lunch guests...
...this may have been type casting's finest hour, for 51-year-old Hugh Griffith is a laughing, brawling, roistering Welshman who lives on 13 acres in Warwickshire, where he and his wife raise dogs, hay, a cow and donkeys. For lunch he munches double brandies, and when he does a drunk scene-as in his new movie, The Bargee, in which he plays a lock tender on a canal-he warms up with bolt after bolt of black velvet (champagne and stout). "Did they think I could fake it with bloody tea?" he asks. Almost by obvious right...
...while Nazi troops stood over him with guns, Vienna's Baron Louis de Rothschild calmly finished his lunch, dabbed his fingers in a finger bowl, smoked a cigarette, approved the next day's menu-and then was marched off to prison. A year later, after Heinrich Himmler visited his cell, his freedom was bought in return for all the assets of the Austrian branch in Austria and abroad, and Louis found refuge in Vermont; the Austrian house never revived.† After Paris was occupied, the Rothschilds were forced to sell most of their French stocks on an already...