Word: room
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen. That evening, back in Washington, at a stag dinner in the green-and-gold White House state dining room, the President of the U.S. moved the U.S.'s welcome of Sir Winston Churchill to a high point. Said President Eisenhower, as he raised a champagne goblet in a toast to Queen Elizabeth: "Here is a man who makes on all who meet him an impression that is unforgettable. Now, for me, I met him in this house-and this was something for a newly commissioned brigadier. In the same room that he is now occupying is where...
Clutching his robust, rosy-faced companion by a lapel last week, Baltimore's lame-duck Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. grunted a political watchword through the haze and hubbub of an election-night hotel room. Said Tommy: "Be humble, Harold, be as humble as you can when you say it." Nodding politely, J. (for Joseph) Harold Grady, 42, retrieved his lapel, rushed off to deliver his televised victory statement. Grady had small reason to be humble. Two months earlier, in only his second campaign, he had knocked off wily Three-Termer D'Alesandro for mayor...
Unannounced, he showed up a few nights later to catch the American Holiday on Ice show at the Lenin Sports Palace with his son Sergei, as well as First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and cronies from the Central Committee. Afterward, in a private room at the back of the hall, Khrushchev gave a caviar-and-smoked-salmon party for the cast, scattering bear hugs and backslaps among hearty toasts in brandy. There was no talk of politics...
...well-oiled customers in the South Shore Room of Bill Harrah's Club at Stateline, Nev. last week had gone into the Sierra foothills with the same single-minded purpose that sent the Forty-Niners up the same steep trail more than a century ago. But there was this difference: the miner stood a fair chance of taking his gold out of the hills; the gamblers stand a better chance of leaving it there. Bill Harrah's glossy casinos-two on the shore of Lake Tahoe, one 56 miles away in Reno-are a rich vein only...
...Chris-Craft's Harsen Smith does not consider the outboards a threat. Outboards. he feels, are to inboard boats as farm teams are to baseball's major-league teams. Says he: "It's the nature of boating to step up to a larger boat with sleeping room aboard...