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...quick way to test for liquid-cyanide poisoning in fruit. But by week's end the FDA was taking an approach similar to the airlines', allowing new imports of grapes and other small fruits but warning consumers to look carefully for holes, mushiness, discoloration or a burnt- almond smell. Safe rather than sorry had given way to FDA Commissioner Young's statement, "It is impossible to assure 100% safety...
...coat hooks. Waiters are crisply professional; they even chop ice from huge blocks so drinks stay cold and undiluted. The overwhelming attraction is the lush Creole seafood: shrimp remoulade with its brassy mustard and paprika-zapped sauce; plump oysters Rockefeller; trout meuniere amandine, fragrant with hot brown butter and almond slices; and eggplant with a gentle, rich seafood stuffing. No reservations, ever, not even for a native or the nominee...
...Nikolai's Roof, atop the Atlanta Hilton. Despite an annoying 6:30 and 9:30 seating policy and an altogether corny menu recitation, the sparkling little supper club offers winy hot borscht, herbed rack of lamb, roasted guinea hen in a lemony olive sauce and a gently sweet banana-almond souffle. Asked why there was not more Russian food on the menu, the waiter answered, "The Czar Nikolai ate only French food." Smart...
...assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. He played football and drove a Kaiser; she was very pretty, conventtrained and a general's daughter. They were married under crossed swords in 1950, then Haig went off to the Korean front as an aide-de- camp to General Edward Almond...
...polling stations, a mob of 50 goons descended on a line of about 100 waiting voters. Using machetes and machine guns, they cut down several Haitians on the spot, then hunted down and butchered many who had tried to flee. One woman was decapitated under an almond tree in the schoolyard. Another was dismembered in an adjacent alleyway. At least 17 people, possibly more, died in the attack. Said Photographer Diederich after surveying the scene: "There was no discrimination about whom they killed...