Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tightly in tow by Roger Kent. Northern California chairman of the State Central Committee and a devoted Brown follower. After speaking at a Fairmont Hotel luncheon-an affair arranged and run by Brown followers-Symington whisked off to Sacramento to spend a night with Brown himself. Next morning he sat with Brown (as had Kennedy) at a press conference, traded amiable tributes. Asked how he would regard Pat Brown as a running mate on the national Democratic ticket, Symington replied: "Well. I think so highly of Governor Brown that I'd be more interested in how he would rate...
...secret session" held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find nothing useful...
...soldered wire, a spring or a clip. The airlines have had to delay flights because of trouble with the water-injection system used to boost takeoffs, bugs in the air-conditioning and pressurization system, even burnt-out lights over the passenger seats. On one occasion an American jet sat on the ground for several hours waiting for a replacement for a burnt-out taillight. Other gremlins: leaking brake fluid, inaccurate fuel-tank gauges, cracked cockpit windows...
...June 20, 1910, in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, a pretty, impressible girl of 21 named Eleanor Butler Alexander was overshadowed at her own wedding. So. two summers out of Harvard, was the groom. Behind them, in a front pew, sat the groom's father -famous spectacles, famous mustache, famous teeth, famous granite jaw-the great Theodore Roosevelt, not two summers out of the White House. Among the guests in the church: no fewer than 500 of T.R.'s old Rough Riders...
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