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Waiting for Paul in a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria was Lyndon Johnson. Officially, the first meeting of Pontiff and President on U.S. soil was expected to last about half an hour, but it was unthinkable that a normally voluble Italian and an incurably loquacious Texan could stick to schedule-so the two men, assisted by two interpreters, talked on for 46 minutes about Viet Nam, India, Pakistan, the Dominican Republic, the conquest of hunger. Paul praised recent U.S. efforts to advance the cause of civil rights. Johnson thought that the Pope's visit would provide a much needed...
...spectators were expected, store windows were boarded up to prevent breakage. All week bomb experts sifted through every nook and cranny of the places that Pope Paul would enter: the U.N. building, St. Patrick's Cathedral; Yankee Stadium, where he would celebrate a Mass of Peace; the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he would meet with President Johnson; the Vatican Pavilion at the World's Fair. A heavy guard including cops and priests was set up at key points a full day before his appearance...
...recognize diplomatically. After the announcement of the Pope's trip, the White House revealed that L.B.J. had a "previously scheduled" engagement to dine with U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg on Oct. 3. Presumably, Johnson will stay overnight, meet the Pope either at Goldberg's suite in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel or at the residence of Francis Cardinal Spellman. Among their possible topics of conversation: establishing diplomatic relations...
Vine Leaves & Sausage. If the arrangement is ratified by stockholders of both firms-as expected-Waldorf (which has no connection with the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel) will give Restaurant Associates $5,200,000 in Waldorf stock, and thus about two-thirds' control of the combined firm. With sales stuck around $19 million a year for a decade, Waldorf has lost $510,000 over the past three years; Restaurant Associates' sales have climbed 40% to $28 million in that time, produced a $592,000 profit last year. Why, then, should Restaurant Associates want Waldorf...
...handsome, grey-haired woman from Prove, Utah, stood before a banquet gathering of 1,000 at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria and explained that youngsters "expect a little discipline" and need to be "held to certain ideals." She has the credentials to back up her comment. In 56 years of marriage, she and her engineer husband have seen their six children become a university president, a company vice president, a top corporation lawyer, a mathematician, a physicist, a housewife, and have themselves become grandparents 26 times over. Obviously such a brood exemplifies "family life at its very best...