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...only contretemps came when the Auriols returned the Trumans' hospitality with a formal dinner and reception at the French Embassy. The 64 dinner guests had scarcely done with their sumptuous meal when hundreds of other guests, invited to the reception, started queueing up on the embassy grounds. Only a trickle of guests were admitted at a time, to avoid confusion at the cloakroom. At 11:30, an hour after the doors opened, the queue still-extended for a block. One impatient Senator was heard to mumble: "It is a strange way to wish us to vote the right...
...case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor's deadline, the Prime Minister shares the secret with the people in a tense radio talk. Troops and civil defense workers take over the city; packing only what belongings they can carry by hand, London's millions queue up resolutely to roll out in all directions in a placarded fleet of buses, military trucks and trains...
Dining in the Colleges is scarcely better, perhaps inferior to the Houses. But Colleges, because of their size, manage to smokescreen gastronomic deficiencies with graciousness. The dining rooms are smaller and proportionately quieter. Students queue up for their stew and ice cream inside the separate College Kitchens and succeed in making the dining halls look like desirable men's clubs rather than cafeterias. In fact, in pre-war days when food was good and served on plates by waitresses, the resemblance of Colleges to good men' clubs was one of their chief attractions to undergraduates...
...unbudgeted item of last-minute expense: in a gesture of good fellowship and good showmanship, Bing ordered 100 cups of afternoon coffee served to a sidewalk queue that had lined up for standing-room tickets...
...standing room only for a while at the new Graduate Commons dining hall last night. By 6:15 p.m. the waiting line stretched all the way down both ramps and the whole length of the ground floor. Many hungry students, seeing the mammoth queue, turned away. Those who waited, though, found that the long line moved steadily, if slowly...