Word: waldorf
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...courage, upped the ante in Viet Nam by putting in more military advisers. But he walked around the back corridors of the White House profoundly upset by the forces that seemed to push him toward a greater intervention. In the summer of 1961 he slipped up to the Waldorf in New York and listened as General Douglas MacArthur told him to stay out of Asia. He could not get it out of his mind. He had MacArthur come down to the White House for lunch. "You know what he said," Kennedy mused the next day. "He said that we shouldn...
Base Pay. Inflation and recession have driven the city's expenses $280 million higher than anticipated in this fiscal year, to a breathtaking $12.5 billion, and the recession has cut tax collections by $150 million. That is a financial headache as big as the Waldorf for New York's mayor, Abraham Beame...
...interesting speech. But since Thompson might also be comatose from Ibogaine, seniors might want to consider other possibilities as well. For example, they might recommend Fidel Castro, who startled the diplomatic world during his last visit to the United States by staying in a Harlem hotel instead of the Waldorf-Astoria. Or they might follow their predecessors of two years ago and consider Madama Binh. If they prefer to limit themselves to Americans, the seniors have a less charismatic but still meritorious group to choose from. Roger Baldwin '04, founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, will probably...
Every clod has its silver lining, and for each insultee there are thousands who would not light a stove without consulting the proprietor. Jackie Onassis is a devoted customer, as are Johnny Carson, Nelson Rockefeller, Danny Kaye and the Kennedys. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel buys supplies from the store; so does Pan American Airways...
Moon's public religious face is that of a brotherhood-minded Christian clergyman and founder of the "ecumenical" Unification Church. At a Waldorf banquet in his honor last week, a monsignor offered the opening prayer, and another Catholic, Seer Jeane Dixon, gushed, "Bless you, Reverend Moon, for your message...