Word: meerschaum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London last week were the Daimler sedans, each with a Special Branch man riding shotgun in the front, whisking delegates from their suites in Claridges, Grosvenor House or the Dorchester to the Regency-style Marlborough House. There at the meeting itself was Harold Wilson, impatiently tapping his outsize Tanzanian meerschaum on the mahogany conference table when a speaker droned on. There, too, were Malawi's Hastings Banda, waving his fly whisk imperiously, and Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau, impetuously sliding down a banister after one tiresome session...
...book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come-hither look by the church door?" And then William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe, and begins to talk...
...book Hogan's Goat (just out) and on another a copy of Life with its Alfred feature. "Did you see what they did to me?" he asks, chuckling at the magazine. "How about that come-hither look by the church door?" And then William Alfred sits down, lights a meerschaum pipe, and begins to talk...
...Paris, Souvanna puffed on a meerschaum, claimed that since he had asked for Russian aid in the first place, he could stop it when he pleased. But he obviously wanted to be back on top in Laos before he gave peacemaking a try. And he was waiting for the big powers to put him there. "Kennedy is my sole hope," he said. He might have added Nikita Khrushchev. Either way, his hope seemed fairly well founded...