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Amid the protective coloration of Manhattan's midtown hotels, the polyglot parliamentarians became as invisible as so many native New Yorkers. There were some exceptions. At the Waldorf-Astoria, Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...
...audience of 900 in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, grave Secretary of State George Catlett Marshall, chief of the 65-man U.S. delegation, cited a more accurate and less happy figure. "A recent survey," he said, "revealed that one out of three people in the U.S. still does not know what the United Nations is or what it does." He also called upon the U.N. General Assembly to devise means to protect the Greek people from Communist aggression. But he left them free to figure out how this is to be done...
Children need doctors, and children are everywhere. Last week, for the first time since 1937, some 1,800 pediatricians from all over the world (59 nations) met in Manhattan's plushy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Their medical findings confirmed some things that most people already knew: undernourishment and tuberculosis are rampant among children throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America. But the meeting also produced some new, surprising findings...
...room, 46-story, $40 million super-palace on Park Avenue, with five ballrooms, a railway siding for private cars, luxury suites with a special entrance, and 2,600 employees. But the new Waldorf opened in 1931, in darkest depression, and it lost from $1 to $3 million a year. Boomer staved off bankruptcy by getting the New York Central to forgive much of the unpaid rent. He taught patrons to eat jellied madrilene in cantaloupe, and devised the now universal card-credit system that enabled the guest to get his bill in two minutes...
Weekends at the Waldorf. "There will always be fastidious people," he said, and refused to cut his staff. He kept tabs on his waiters, studied food (he could tell many blends of coffee by taste), and traveled widely in search of new ideas. Once a year he assembled hotel men and other friends for a gourmet's dinner of California wines, lettuce from irrigated Arizona gardens, and sole flown from the English channel. The Waldorf became an international institution. Princes, ambassadors and Elsa Maxwell filled the suites in its socially topless Towers...