Word: salons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each toss sent a fruit salad of custom creations arcing past the chandelier in his exclusive salon. A mere 60 women had managed to squeeze into the maelstrom, along with a handful of men. But as hats fell like peonies from heaven, ladies grabbed and shrieked. Five stalwart matrons, operating as "The Syndicate," reached for anything that sailed by, however conservative...
Lunch over, Kennedy and the general returned to the Salon Dore for nearly two hours of further talk. Principal topic: Laos and Southeast Asia. Both men agreed on the need for a certified ceasefire, expressed mutual hopes for a unified, neutralized Laos; but De Gaulle made it clear that no French troops would be committed to preserve Laotian freedom. At this conference, Kennedy shared equally in the conversation time, impressed De Gaulle with his sure knowledge of the subject matter (he used no notes), his occasional sharp turns of phrase. There was no glimmer of possible friction, and Kennedy told...
...ceremony itself was simple. In a salon at his mother's modest palace, Hussein and Toni (who has been converted to the Moslem faith) said their vows, signed five copies of the wedding contract, exchanged rings, and then everybody in the room shouted "Mabrouk!" (good luck). With his bride at his side, Hussein drove through Amman's streets in a cream-colored Mercedes to take the cheers of most of the city's population. That night the couple retired to one of Hussein's palaces, Basman, where they had the company of two pet lions...
...next morning Johnson rode to Independence Palace, accompanied by Ambassador Frederick Nolting Jr., for a meeting with President Ngo Dinh Diem. In the highceilinged, blue-carpeted salon on the second floor, Diem greeted Johnson profusely, motioned him to a brocaded chair. The business before the two men: South Viet Nam's long struggle against Communist subversion, and how the Kennedy Administration plans to help the Diem government win that struggle...
...centuries in the Polish nobility, but he is also descended from the Gordons of Scotland, the most notable of whom was Lord Byron. His father was a noted critic whose house was always full of artists, writers, musicians, poets, psychologists and philosophers. For young Balthasar, the talk in the salon was an education in itself...