Word: lunch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shah of Iran was his host. The Shah turned out some splendid Persian-style opulence for the visiting American: beautiful rugs were laid on the streets under ceremonial arches and along the final 200 yards of the route to the Shah's marble palace. After lunch with the Shah, Ike told the Iranian Parliament: "I well know you and the people of Iran are not standing on the sidelines in this struggle [for peace among nations]. Without flinching, you have borne the force of a powerful propaganda assault." Privately, the Shah worried about the military buildup, with Communist arms...
...Queen must do her job without a murmur, and Britain's Elizabeth did it stoutly when South Africa's new Governor General, Charles R. Swart, came to pay his first call. After the usual formal audience, she gave a lunch in Swart's honor at Buckingham Palace...
...again called the shots, scraped up the $500 tuition to send Anne to the august American Academy of Dramatic Arts. It was just two weeks before graduation from the Academy that she was discovered practicing alone on the school's darkened stage while everyone else was out to lunch. That chance encounter eventually got her a part in a TV production of Turgenev's Torrents of Spring. "Look," says Annie as she tries to find some modest explanation for the fact that she worked even during her lunch hours. "I had no money for malteds and no dates...
They became better acquainted in 1956 on Nehru's second trip to the U.S., soon after Hungary and Suez had erupted into the headlines. Spending a day at Ike's Gettysburg farm, the two began talking at breakfast, continued through the morning until lunch. Then after a short nap, the talks went on through the late afternoon, dinner and evening-a total of 14 hours. It was, said Nehru, the longest sustained conversation he has ever had with anyone, and it touched on subjects ranging from the painting of Grandma Moses to the personality of Nikita Khrushchev...
Seniors will elect members of the Permanent Class Committee during lunch and dinner today. Two members have already been elected by default: Rodney D. Hardy '60 of Leverett House and Hale Sturges '60 of Lowell House...