Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Offers Galore. There are times when Lombardi admits to a loneliness and a yearning for tall buildings. ''I'm a city man." he says. "I still go back to New York by myself now and then, just to take a room at the Waldorf and sit-surrounded by the city." Any time Lombardi wants to quit, he can take his pick of offers from half a dozen other pro teams. The latest, from the last-place Los Angeles Rams: $100,000 in cash, $100,000 worth of life insurance, title to a furnished house, and, natch...
...been kept. Stevenson works mainly through regular State Department channels, reporting to Secretary of State Rusk through his old friend Harlan Cleveland, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs. But he is often on the direct line to Kennedy from his U.N. mission headquarters or from his Waldorf Tower suite. He consults constantly with Arthur Schlesinger Jr.. a White House liaison man and an old Stevenson speechwriter who, however, switched allegiance to Kennedy in early 1960. At least once a week Stevenson flies to Washington to attend State Department meetings or meetings of the Executive Committee...
...Bishop Alfonso Carinci said his 27,800th Mass, then went home to mark the day with a quiet celebration. In Manhattan. Methodist Bishop Herbert Welch walked three blocks to his polling place to vote, then went home to prepare his speech for a party in his honor at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The two sturdy bishops-the oldest in their faiths-were both 100 years...
...charge of a $55 million redevelopment program. Then he was off to Manhattan for Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium. He has three fulltime hotel suites-in the Beverly Hilton (which he built), the Mountain Shadows Resort in Phoenix (which he also built), and Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria (which was built in 1930-31 when he wasn't looking). In each of them, he keeps complete wardrobes, as well as caches of clothes in half a dozen other hotels across the country. All told, he owns 150 suits, 90 pairs of shoes (plus 52 pairs of golf...
...distinguished work." And President Kennedy by emissary extolled "his record of legislative performance in the public interest." The New York Times summed it all up in a caustic editorial: "Mr. Buckley, in his 45 years in politics, may have been wrong many times; but on Monday night at the Waldorf he reaped the fruits of being right the one time it counted most...