Word: vip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delta Air Lines is deeply concerned about your story "The Hero Galley" [Feb. 15]. It depicts Lieut. William Galley as someone who, in recent weeks, has become the recipient of numerous favors and gratuities. It relates that Delta's Columbus, Ga., station personnel have "wired ahead for VIP treatment...
THREE weeks after the attack on the Ho Chi Minh Trail had begun. South Viet Nam's rugged Quang Tri province, the chief staging area, became a major stop on the VIP circuit. Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, new to the Senate Armed Services Committee, flew in by executive jet, only to be waved away from Khe Sanh when Communist mortar fire suddenly thudded in. South Viet Nam's Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, resplendent in his standard field getup-black flight suit, purple scarf and revolver-arrived to visit South Vietnamese marines. "I tried to visit Laos myself...
...Henry Withers, a general practitioner with a large practice in Houston, also serves as VIP-only physician on call for the city's swanky Warwick Hotel. One night recently he got a call from a frantic guest, Martha Mitchell. Her daughter Marty, 10, had a sore throat and fever. When the good doctor turned up, Martha turned up her nose. "He looked like a busboy," she said later. "His hair was frazzled. He had on funny-looking clothes." Withers says he thought he looked "pretty nice. I had showered. I had on a new sports coat, new slacks." When...
...surprised at anything the Harvard administration is willing to do, but I confess to having been amazed to read in Tuesday's CRIMSON that Nikitas Sioris, the Greek Minister of Education and Religion, was to be not only officially welcomed as a visitor to the University, but even accorded VIP treatment. Knowing as I do, partly from reports of friends whose knowledge is first-hand, but also from newspaper accounts, of the criminal acts of Sioris' ministry (in annulling elections to university chairs, in summary removals of incumbents, in overt interference with the right of teachers to teach what they...
When Calley travels, Delta Air Lines in Columbus, Ga., wires ahead to ensure him VIP treatment; recently Delta gave him a first-class seat though he held a coach ticket. When he stops at a bar, Calley invariably finds his drink tab (bourbon and Seven-Up) collected by an admirer. While in Washington, where he was undergoing psychiatric tests last week, he had $10 thrust at him by a stranger. In Columbus, Calley and his friends are always guests of the house at the Chickasaw Supper Club. A local wine shop gives him a discount. The president of the Fourth...