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...dinner given for the two leaders midway through their summit meeting in Iceland last week, Richard Nixon hoisted a glass to Georges Pompidou and offered the French President both a gracious toast and a telling reminder...
...makes him answerable to the ranchers and the politicians in Santa Fe. It is their star, their job, and they want Billy out of the way. Garrett rides down to Old Fort Sumner to give him a warning and a few days' head start. Billy makes an ironic toast: "Sheriff Pat Garrett-sold out to the Santa Fe ring. How's it feel?" "It feels," Garrett tells him with unmistakable finality, "like times have changed...
...thoughtfully invited the four Whitlam children, aged 19 to 29, who had gathered in London for a family reunion, to join their parents at a state dinner at 10 Downing Street. Whitlam scored points at the dinner by rising and, after a suitable pause for effect, proposing the traditional toast to the Queen...
...Lord God told Abraham: "Go forth from your country . . . to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation." After centuries of wandering in the Diaspora, the people of the Covenant had returned to their Promised Land. No longer did the Passover toast, "Next Year in Jerusalem," represent an impossible messianic dream. It was reality...
...William F. Buckley Jr., Author David Halberstam, Director Joshua Logan and his wife, gathered at "21" to celebrate Mrs. Luce's 70th birthday. The party was given by her stepson Henry Luce III and New York City Parks Commissioner Richard Clurman and his wife. Actress Ilka Chase toasted Mrs. Luce for providing "the best 18 months of my life," her starring role in the original production of The Women. Having blown out the one candle on her cake, Mrs. Luce said that she had been "37 years before my time" with the theme of love in the play...