Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...totally unimpressive "moderate," set the tone by declaring that the Blaik-Royall mission would be of course purely advisory, added Birmingham's familiar refrain that past cooperation between the races had been "hampered largely by professional outside agitators." With that, he led the visitors off to a private lunch at Birmingham's exclusively white sanctuary, "The Club." Then early next morning, two bombs exploded in a Negro district; there were no injuries, though several houses and cars were damaged by flying shrapnel. Through the rest of the week, Blaik and Royall spent their time listening to the problems...
Late in the week, Rusk was host at his Waldorf-Astoria suite to British For eign Secretary Lord Home and Russia's Andrei Gromyko for a two-hour lunch which featured roast veal, champagne, with a dessert of lukewarm detente...
They discussed-in terms as bland as the meal-nonproliferation of nuclear weapons and the possibilities of stationing observers in both the Soviet Union and Western nations to guard against surprise attacks. Though nothing concrete came out of the lunch, Gromyko did invite Rusk to dinner at the Russian mission-another urgent date on Rusk's crowded U.N. schedule...
Residents of Bertram Hall, outraged at being sent from their own dining room into Briggs for lunch, Monday organized a boycott of the South House dining room. This effort to resist house dining appears to have collapsed, although Bertram still solidly opposes the change...
...boycott is based on the Bertram girls' conviction that their dorm is an exceptional place, that the "friendly, relaxed atmosphere at lunch is one of the nicest things about Bertram." The move to Briggs was thought inconvenient and unnecessary, and made Bertram "no better than an off-campus house...