Word: toasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brezhnev, prepared to play host early this week to a summit meeting of the heads of government of the nine Common Market countries -and got out his bathing suit for the U.S.-French summit in Martinique. If any of the political jet-setters should get confused and propose a toast to his good friend "Helmut Ford" or his old colleague "Harold d'Estaing," he will no doubt be pardoned for having succumbed to an overdose of summitry...
...four-day visit. Having arrived from Vladivostok after accompanying President Ford on his summit meeting with Soviet leaders, Kissinger was in Peking to reassure China that no secret deals had been made with the Russians and that improving relations with China remained, as Kissinger put it in his farewell toast, "a fixed principle of American foreign policy." The Chinese response was friendly, showing no signs of either suspicion or alarm. Said Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua: "The current international situation is characterized by great disorder under heaven. Mankind always moves forward amidst turmoil...
...1920s, moved to the Broadway celebrity beat in the 1930s and dabbled as master of ceremonies in vaudeville. In 1948, CBS tapped him as host of a variety show the network launched on a shoe-string budget; Sullivan hired Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis at $200 for his opener. Toast of the Town (later The Ed Sullivan Show) was gored by critics but cherished by millions of fans; their loyalty kept it on the air until 1971. Sullivan's bashful, stiff-necked, tongue-tied and knuckle-crackingly nervous mannerisms won him as much affection as ridicule. Comedians competed...
...failure of Premier Chou En-lai to appear on Oct. 1 did. The night before, Chou had presided triumphantly at a banquet in Peking's Great Hall of the People. While 1,500 Chinese viPs and 4,500 foreign guests thunderously applauded, Chou had drunk a toast to unity "on behalf of Great Leader Chairman Mao, of the Party's Central Committee and of the Chinese government." After his 45-minute appearance, Chou, 76, apparently returned to a Peking hospital to continue treatment for what most analysts believe is a serious heart ailment...
Alfred Hitchcock, Hollywood's well-rounded master of movie thrillers, stopped working on the script of his 54th film long enough to attend his 75th birthday party last week. On hand at Chasen's to toast the director of Psycho and Frenzy was a galactic gathering of 250 well-wishers, including Actors Cory Grant and Paul Newman and Director François Truffaut. Despite the guest list and a cake adorned with 76 pastry tracings of the master's pudgy profile, Hitchcock was less interested in encomiums than work. "My new movie will involve kidnaping...