Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increase has to be matched by a decrease in expenditures. The Administration resisted, fearing that a cut of the magnitude demanded by Mills would gut federal welfare programs. One list of economies that was proposed would have eliminated vaccinations for children, and another would have slashed the school lunch and milk programs-proposals the Administration well knew would be unacceptable to Congress. "They haven't wanted to cut," complained a Ways and Means member. "They just want to show that it's impossible...
...Philby, 55, proved aggressively unrepentant. "I would do it again tomorrow," said the former chief of British counterintelligence, who went over the wall in 1963. His purpose, he said, "was the fight for Communism" and the eradication of the many evils of capitalism, prominent among them "the expense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, the English Channel and the rising cost of living." By contrast, Philby added, "I am having a love affair with Moscow," marred only by one touch of staleness: "I am rather tired of caviar...
Beyond Nationalism. Though Peterson's audience was composed of British and U.S. businessmen at a Savoy Hotel lunch of the American Chamber of Commerce of the U.K., his words were plainly aimed at corporate and government chiefs everywhere. "It is just possible," said Peterson, "that businesses have the potential to handle internationalism better than governments." Specifically, he proposed "increasing operational cooperation" among businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic, especially through multinational corporations-companies owned and operated by citizens of several nations...
...three of the four men who lunched together last week in the executive dining room of Britain's Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. on Grosvenor Place, London, the menu included a side order of crow. The humiliation of A.E.I. Chairman Sir Charles Wheeler, Chief Executive Sir Joseph Latham and Finance Director John Barber stemmed from the circumstances of the lunch. Their guest, General Electric Co. Ltd. Managing Director Arnold Weinstock, 43, had just acquired their company in one of the bitterest takeover battles in British business history and had come to Grosvenor Place to begin putting it into effect...
Eliot House men voted at lunch with the other Houses. After the poll was finally opened at 6:30 p.m., the voting proceeded according to plan...