Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appearing before some 1,000 U.S. businessmen in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, George W. Ball, the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, delivered a White House-approved speech that gave the broad outlines of the President's trade program. Most simply, Ball urged across-the-board tariff cuts and close ties with Europe's Common Market...
...Most of the primary needs of Bashir Ahmad were donated. Pan Am, transportation to and from Pakistan; Waldorf-Astoria, Bashir's room in New York; his host, Vice President Johnson, the expenses in Texas. The People-to-People program paid for such things as his meals. No public funds were spent...
Frank Patton, 41, quit his industrial-equipment sales job four years ago to take the Rockford franchise. His business has increased 10% to 20% every year, last year grossed $210,000 and nearly $40,000 in pretax profits. Among other McDonald licensees are an ex-research chemist, a former Waldorf-Astoria cook, a Chicago detective, and the onetime head of research at Kraft Foods (which supplies a special cheddar for McDonald's 19? cheeseburger...
...driver who had a grin as wide as his handlebar mustache. A true Texan, the Vice President casually invited Bashir Ahmad to "come and see us, heah?" A Karachi columnist picked up the invitation and ran with it: "My, Bashir is certainly lucky. He'll stay at the Waldorf-Astoria." Almost before Johnson could say L.B.J., he realized that his invitation had been accepted, and he was stuck with it. Last week Bashir jetted into New York, speaking not a word of English and wearing shoes for the first time in his life...
...midsummer Manhattan, when the humidity could float the Queen Mary up to the side entrance of the Waldorf, a Broadway production has to be exceedingly durable to survive, and, although the list of running plays has atrophied, summer visitors still have some good choices. Among the best from the past season, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary continues with sellout houses, and Shelagh Delaney's raw and powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce...