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...Toasts. The Soviet leaders sat together, Bulganin in the center, Khrushchev on his left and Molotov on his right. Then at three long tables sat about 150 diplomats and Russian guests, with separate tables for press and children. The sumptuous, eight-course meal was served by more than a hundred waiters and serving girls, who came in long lines through a grove of pine trees bearing...
...conference at the summit should be restricted to business, with sumptuous parties and endless toasting ruled...
Only burial tombs and a few walls remain of their once-sumptuous cities, their ancient Greek script is largely undeciphered, most of their art has been dispersed and lost. But in their heyday, from 700 to 400 B.C., these ancient, vigorous people controlled most of central Italy and the Po River valley and Elba and Corsica...
Personality & Private Life. Married to Mme. La-iad, a prominent feminist and a onetime Senator, Phibun has six grown children, entertains in a sumptuous Bangkok palace. He serves Coca-Cola to guests (a son-in-law is a local Coke concessionaire), and, like Coca-Cola Tycoon James Farley, he has a fondness for green furniture and carpets. Phibun, a devout Buddhist, was born on a Wednesday, and green is the lucky color for Wednesday's children in Thailand. (One of his prewar decrees made dancing compulsory in government offices on Wednesday afternoons.) A canny politician...
...already famed in Caesar's day, the Via Appia became known, in the centuries that followed, as the Queen of Roads. Many a victorious Roman legion marched homeward in triumph along its stone paving and over its skillfully engineered bridges. Wealthy Romans built their most sumptuous villas and tombs along its right of way. Along the same road the Apostle Paul trudged to his martyrdom...