Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later, Tito darted across town to the Waldorf to see Ike, who had just finished lunching with delegates of all Latin American nations (not invited: Cuba, the Dominican Republic). Ike had also had a quick exchange of pleasantries with Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, Nepal's Premier B. P. Koirala and Lebanon's Premier Saeb Salam. Tito and Ike broke the ice with a discussion of cattle breeding, parted on Ike's invitation to Tito to travel freely in the U.S. during his stay...
...word got out when a gaggle of fashion reporters scissored into Jacqueline Kennedy's Waldorf-Astoria suite in Manhattan to gab about clothes and to see her try on some new maternity dresses ($30 to $40 apiece). Jackie, they discovered, was upset about a New York Times Sunday Magazine story reporting that many women are disturbed over her "devil-may-care chic." A housewife, said the Times, sniffed that Jackie "looks too damn snappy." The Times also went on to lift a story from Women's Wear Daily, which reported that Jackie spends about $30,000 a year...
...Nixon's campaigns and world tours, Pat has been well informed, indefatigable and courageous ("She was braver than any man I ever saw," said a military aide after Caracas). Emily Lodge, receiving high-ranking guests with her mellowed husband in her cerise and white drawing room of their Waldorf Towers apartment, is a portrait of manner-born grace and warmth...
...hurried political expedition into New York City last week, Texas' Senator Lyndon B. Johnson all but bumped into Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy, who had slipped away from his seaside vacation retreat at Hyannisport, Mass, to do some New York politicking himself. Just as Kennedy headed into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, by long-shot coincidence the car bringing Johnson from the airport pulled up at the entrance. Johnson strode indoors so fast that he did not even see Kennedy, but Kennedy saw Johnson, and let out a startled semi-shout: "What's that guy doing here...
Some nine years after he was removed from his Far Eastern Command, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, is still a most respected U.S. citizen in Japanese eyes. In his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers last week, MacArthur received a Japanese diplomat, who gave the old soldier the highest decoration that Japan ever confers upon a foreigner who is not a head of state: the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers. Said MacArthur: "I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished...