Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbert Hoover, 89, at his Waldorf Towers apartment in Manhattan, rallying after a bleeding right kidney and a respiratory infection caused the second serious setback to his failing health in eight months; Earl Mountbatten, 63, Chief of the British Defense staff, in London's King Edward VIIs Hospital for Officers, after an operation for a hernia; Sportscaster Red Barber, 56, in Emporia, Va.'s Greensville Memorial Hospital, with a mild heart attack; Historian George Kennan, 60, in Princeton Hospital with hepatitis; John Glenn, 42, in Columbus' Grant Hospital with a "mild" concussion after he fell...
That evening the President appeared at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner of the Weizmann Institute, which has created 46 new fellowships in memory of John Kennedy-one for each year of his age. He told the diners that the U.S. has offered to cooperate with Israel in finding a way to convert salt water to fresh water with atomic energy. But Johnson's mind was more on the water problems of Guantanamo Bay, and Aide Jack Valenti repeatedly rushed to the dais with the latest intelligence reports...
Leaving the Waldorf, the President went straight to Air Force One and headed for Washington...
...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...