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...accommodate the crowds and cater to their diverse preferences in music, Lowell is also presenting the VIP's, who will entertain in the junior common room...
...owner of a lucrative travel agency catering to Harvard students, Vladimir Kazan, 42, qualified for VIP treatment when he visited Moscow last October at the cordial invitation of Intourist, the Soviet state travel bureau. In fact, the Russians picked up the bill for his entire stay. But Kazan, a former Czech who had emigrated to the U.S. in 1955 and become a citizen, discovered that Communist hospitality can still be highly uneven. Returning to the U.S. via Paris, Kazan's Soviet Aeroflot jetliner made an unscheduled stop in Prague for what Czech authorities said was a "radar breakdown." When...
Magic Ingredient. Kilgour, French & Stanbury, whose clients include Novelist Patrick Dennis, David Merrick and CBS Chairman William Paley, thought nothing of fitting two vicuna overcoats for a 20th Century-Fox executive in the VIP lounge of the London Airport while he was between planes. Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor Erich Leinsdorf remembers that "whenever I played at Festival Hall, Stanbury would go there and study my motions so he could improve my full-dress suit...
Once little more than an industry sideline, air freight is coming in for VIP lounge-style treatment of its own. United Air Lines opened a highly auto mated, $2,000,000 freight terminal two weeks ago in San Francisco. Eastern Air Lines is building something to match it in Atlanta. Using show biz, Pan American has run a TV ad in which a Caribbean calypso band rides pushbutton-directed pallets for a merry swing through the company's gleaming new $8,500,000 computerized terminal...
...first 727 that had ever landed at Baneasa Airport. In mysterious Rumanian fashion, the government would not reveal its plans for the visit until after the plane had touched down. The Rumanians were not unfriendly-they provided a police escort from the airport, and later rolled out a yellow VIP carpet for the reception with First Deputy Premier Alexandru Birladeanu...