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...cost of wine, or about two-thirds the price of a three-star Parisian restaurant. He also maintains a staff of 48 and habitually loses money on the operation. Bocuse stays prosperous by lending his name to a line of wines exported to the U.S. and by running an annex, the Abbaye, that he calls his "laughing place." There he can feed 300 at a banquet, and there he enjoys tinkering with a stereo system on which he plays schmalzy love songs and a $10,000 automated organ that booms out John Philip Sousa marches. Occasionally he even sings...
Another method of determining spring's arrival is to walk down to the Coop annex on Saturday afternoon. If you hear a lot of loud music, see some freaks milling around, and bargain hunters scouring the record racks at a celebrated "sidewalk" sale (actually it is a garage) for a copy of Thunderclap Newman, then you know that spring...
...first "Belfast Special"-a car loaded with 175 Ibs. of gelignite time bombs-destroyed the back of the Old Bailey court building and its year-old $17 million annex and wrecked a three-story hotel and pub across the street. An hour later, 1½ miles to the west, a second car exploded in Whitehall, badly damaging the Ministry of Agriculture and the main army recruiting center. Whole walls were stripped of windows, the frames twisted and buckled. The two blasts injured 194 people, including five policemen, but miraculously caused only one death. The victim was a 60-year...
...large the people who organized and worked in the Committee for Art for McGovern '72 were women," said Portia Harcus, one of the four women others of Parker 470 who made their gallery available for the September 29-30 sale and the October 2 evening auction. This barnlike annex of Harcus-Krakow's Newbury St. gallery provided an understated backdrop for the raising of $80,000 towards electing the McGovern-Shriver ticket...
...possibility of investigative reporting which names names and pinpoints crimes. Such reports have often led to prosecution. The notion expressed by Mr. Justice Stewart in a dissenting opinion that the Court's decision "invites state and Federal authorities to undermine the historic independence of the press by attempting to annex the journalistic profession as an investigative arm of government" is well taken. Unfortunately, the Court's decision creates an atmosphere in which the likelihood of a reporter being able to obtain information which could weigh on an investigation is slim indeed...