Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and their aides sat down to lunch at the Soviet Mission to the U.N. in Manhattan, someone discovered that a package of Russian cigarettes on the table bore the brand name Troika. This allusion to the Soviet U.N. policy created general hilarity. The actual remarks are not known, but it is just possible that someone asked Gromyko: "Are you vetoing more and enjoying it less...
...festive sounds that came from the tin-roofed village school at Namone last week suggested a cocktail party more than a peace conference. Burgundy and beer at lunch added to the hilarity. While the spokesman for the ''neutralist" bloc laughed uproariously at his own jokes, pigs rooted about on the dirt floor scavenging bits of juicy pork and chicken from the table. Even stone-faced General Phoun Sipraseuth, leader of the Communist Pathet Lao delegation, occasionally showed a frozen smile...
...third round of Peace Corps examinations will be held this Saturday in Lowell Lecture Hall, beginning at 8:30 in the morning. The exams will last for six hours, with an hour out for lunch...
Seeing as Director Otto Preminger was in town anyway, the President of the U.S. invited him to dinner. But Preminger was fiercely busy, and he declined. John Kennedy understood, and he turned to questions of Berlin and the U.N. to pass the time. Next day he invited Preminger to lunch, and again he was turned down-heavy work schedule and all that. The President tried a third time. At last, Preminger gave in, and one day last week he joined Jack Kennedy for lunch...
There remains one more pre-lunch course that may a tract: the Slavic department's the Slavic department's only course for the English-speakers: Professor Vsevolod Setschkareff's massive "History of Russian Literature from the Beginnings to the Present...