Word: nightful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might not the creative energy of freedom be used to seize the initiative? Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sought the answer in long, intensely personal talks (often a sleepless President picked up his bedside phone in the middle of the night to call a sleepless Dulles)?and the idea of Ike's exchanging visits with Khrushchev came up. "We began to work on this thing," Eisenhower recalled months later, "and I gave the subject to two or three of my trusted associates in the State Department and said, 'Now let's try to tote...
...over $250,000 to entertain the 1,270 guests who ate up, among other things, 5,000 finger sandwiches, 2,160 scrambled eggs, 100 Ibs. of corned beef hash, drank 480 bottles of Cuvée Dom Perignon (1949) and 720 bottles of hard liquor, and danced through the night to Meyer Davis' society orchestra, flown in from New York. By Detroit standards, Charlotte Ford's coming-out party was a dazzling spectacle; by any other standards, it was as Hearst Society Columnist Cholly Knickerbocker cooed, "THE 'Party of the Century...