Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berlin, the capital of Adolf Hitler's tottering Third Reich, was a shattered, flaming inferno. Tanks and troops of Soviet General Vasily Chuikov's Eighth Guards army had fought to within a few blocks of the Reich Chancellery. The end was clearly at hand. Some time after lunch that day, Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, retired to their suite in the Führer's underground bunker to take their lives. They left instructions that their bodies be burned...
...Lunching Uptown. In most matters of dress, few companies are more conservative than those in finance and insurance. At Chicago's Northern Trust Co., a tradition requiring all officers to wear hats to work has been abandoned, but sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That...
...Couve is almost invariably frosty in public, his small coterie of friends claim that in private he is witty, charming and downright human. He lives a quiet private life with his wife Jacqueline in a Left Bank town house, manages to arrange his work schedule so that they have lunch at home three times a week. They have three married daughters and five grandchildren. He has a dachshund named Jason, plays golf most Sunday mornings (in the 80s), and likes the movies enough to queue up with the crowds along the Champs Elysees to see the latest detective flicks...
Shadows of the Shadow. Madame Blavatsky proclaimed that all men are brothers-not only to one another but to all other animals, and to vegetables and minerals as well. Carried to its logical extreme, her doctrine would make a cannibal out of everyone who eats lunch, and many Theosophists have become vegetarians, presumably on the theory that cows are more brotherly than spinach...
...Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood." Praising his "tenacity, skill and courage, "Queen Elizabeth knighted Rose and invited him and his wife Dorothy to lunch at Buckingham Palace...