Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RICHARD NIXON. "They say he's mature, and they say he's experienced. But if an inexperienced Governor of New York can take him up in the Waldorf Towers* and turn his platform around 180° in one night, think what Khrushchev could do if he got him in the kitchen...
...college campus during the fraternity rushing season. The neutralist leaders were wined and dined by East and West, nattered with offers of financial aid, wooed with the promise of technicians, state visits and cultural exchanges. When Dwight Eisenhower presided in the Presidential Suite at the Waldorf Tower, his guests included Cabinet ministers from such countries as Nepal, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Ethiopia. When tiny Togo gave a cocktail party at the Plaza Hotel, who should pop in but pudgy Nikita Khrushchev, all smiles. Both dazed and gratified, Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio offered the understatement of the week by observing...
Best of Both. Equally nimble, Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah raced around Manhattan shaking black hands and white hands at every opportunity. Casting himself in the role of mother hen to the 15 newly emerged African states, U.S.-educated Nkrumah strode from his suite in the Waldorf-Astoria alternately dressed in Western business suits and Ghanaian ceremonial robes, and seemed to promise to fellow Africans the best of both worlds...
...them to be aboard his chartered plane when he flies back fo Tokyo this week. It was not on the crown prince's official schedule, but he was anxious to say hello to an old acquaintance, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who lives in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, only two floors away from the suite assigned to the royal couple...
Nothing that simple was going to satisfy Castro-planting the suspicion that his whole maneuver had been planned earlier. Even before he checked in at the Shelburne, his agents had begun negotiations with the Hotel Theresa, "the Waldorf-Astoria of Harlem." While the bearded Cuban was bending Hammarskjold's ear, one of his men turned up at the Theresa delivering $840 in cash-one day's rent for an assorted selection of the Theresa's rooms. This was more than the ordinary Harlem citizen would have been charged for the same supply of beds-and $440 more...