Word: waldorfs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transmitters in a complicated nexus of jungle drums that would confuse Margaret Mead. Bernie Stolar, vice president of a small communications firm, first heard that Menachem Begin was in town after the Camp David summit when the taxi Stolar was taking to work encountered a traffic jam near the Waldorf-Astoria and his driver explained that Begin had just arrived. Shrugs Stolar: "It was news...
...soldiers never die. They just fade away," MacArthur emotionally told a joint session of Congress when he returned. He did gradually fade away, although he served for a time as chairman of Remington Rand (later Sperry Rand) and occupied a plush apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, which he shared with his second wife, Jean, and his son, Arthur. He was not ordinarily given to candor about himself, but a few years before he died in 1964, he gave some indication of what it had been like to be Douglas MacArthur. "My mother put too much pressure...
...heavily guarded National Press Club, Begin flew on to New York City to plead for support from American Jewish leaders, terming them Israel's "second line of defense." Looking weary and depressed, he appeared before some 1,000 representatives of Jewish organizations from 30 states at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Many were near tears as Begin argued that Israel, not Egypt, had presented a detailed peace plan and that Egypt, not Israel, had broken off the negotiations. "The words adamance and intransigence do not have anything in common with us," he contended...
...hard feelings-at least not in public As Bert Lance strode into the grand ballroom of New York City's Waldorf Astoria Hotel last week, more than 800 young brokers and bankers burst into prolonged applause. The warm welcome by members of the Investment Association of New York meant mainly that Lance still had friends far from his native Georgia. Partly out of respect for his feisty fight against leaving Washington, but more clearly out of appreciation for the conservative economic views that he had voiced as Jimmy Carter's Budget Director, the audience gave Lance three standing...
...Historian David McCullough recounts in his current bestseller, The Path Between the Seas, a Panamanian secessionist who would soon become the first president of Panama, Dr. Manuel Amador Guerrero, met with Bunau-Varilla in room 1162 of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City on Sept. 24, 1903. Bunau-Varilla later called that room "the cradle of the Panama republic." The frail, bespectacled Amador wanted assurance that the U.S. would support a Panamanian revolution. Bunau-Varilla left for Washington to put the question to Roosevelt. The Frenchman received "no assurances," Roosevelt said later, but the President added...