Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questioning at the National Press Club, and played host himself at a dinner for President Kennedy and for his old friend, Dwight Eisenhower. On another evening, he traded war stories with Secretary of State Dean Rusk-an old Burma hand-and was chided by protocol officers for forgetting to toast the health of the U.S. President. Having survived all the festivities, Ayub flew off for a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan and a visit to Ike's Gettysburg, Pa. farm. Still ahead of him were more gastronomical trials: a U.N. dinner and a barbecue at the Texas ranch...
...that note, the leaders adjourned for a small ceremonial lunch?langouste, pate de foie gras, noix de veau Orloff and three French wines. Jackie sat at De Gaulle's right, charmed him with her careful, schoolbook French. When he rose to toast his visitors, De Gaulle again spoke in austere tones, but veteran observers of his methods noted a rare, genuine warmth as he told the Kennedys: "You saw this morning how happy Paris was to see you. I do not need to add anything to this...
Social Niceties. That night De Gaulle was the host at a brilliant formal dinner at the Elysee Palace. By this time, the crusty old soldier had obviously warmed to his young guests. Referring to Kennedy as "mon ami," the French President in his toast paid tribute to Kennedy's "intelligence and courage," noted "the philosophy of the true statesman who selects his course and holds to it without letting himself be stopped, not deviating because of incidents, and without waiting for any formula or combination to alleviate the responsibility that is his duty and his honor." Looking much like...
...suffers from insomnia, is up with the birds each morning. He dresses quietly, then slips downstairs. Eleanor Moaney, his housekeeper, is aware of the ex-President's habits, and he does not have to wait long for his breakfast-orange juice, a small filet mignon, and toast. By 7:30, Ike is on his way to his office, four miles away in a red-brick building that was once the home of the president of Gettysburg College...
Millions of other South Africans-the English-speaking whites, the blacks, the coloreds and the Indians-could only watch in bitter resignation or sullen silence. In English-speaking Natal, clumps of whites gathered at cocktail parties to defiantly toast the Queen. In Port Elizabeth, an anonymous artist painted a huge Union Jack on the street. Liberals pointed out that only a bare majority of the white population (the only ones allowed to vote) had voted for the republic-850,458 people out of South Africa's total 15,841,128 population...