Word: waldorf
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...Which later lent its name to New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, originally built by William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV, Astor's great-grandsons...
...cannot get in his marble palace in Washington. He relies heavily on his web of contacts in banking, Government and stock market circles, but also makes a point of chatting frequently with salesmen, shoeshine boys, hashslingers and foreign tourists, likes to prowl the lobby of Manhattan's Waldorf in search of likely candidates for questioning...
...presence in New York City, however, made nervous wrecks of police and security officials. A couple of anti-Tito Yugoslavs managed to slip into the Waldorf-Astoria and make their way to Tito's 35th floor-where they were promptly arrested. At another point, five pickets ran into three Tito aides; in the scuffle, one of Tito's men ended up with a bruised jaw. And outside the Waldorf, six demonstrators paraded in Halloween skeleton costumes, hauling a chariot bearing skeletons and a whip-cracking man dressed as Tito. Angered, Tito canceled a reception for 1,200 guests...
...since Tito was determined to visit Latin America and the UN anyway. Nevertheless, adequate precedent for a Presidential snub certainly existed. A proposed visit in 1957 was cancelled outright when protests unnerved Eisenhower. In 1960 Tito came to the UN and was awarded a chat with Ike at the Waldorf-Astoria but not an invitation to the White House...
...there as Eisenhower's guest in 1957, but church groups, veterans' organizations and politicians raised such a fuss that his proposed state visit was called off. He got as far as Manhattan in 1960, when he addressed the United Nations and chatted with Ike at the Waldorf-Astoria. But still nobody asked him to come on down to Washington-and Tito's feelings were hurt. Last week, at the invitation of President Kennedy, Tito, 71, finally made the grade...