Word: au
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colony Chef Jean Vergnes, former Le Pavilion Chef Pierre Franey, La Caravelle Chef Roger Fessaguet, and Jacques Pépin, former chef to Charles de Gaulle. On the beach, the fivesome whipped up a little barbecue that featured poached striped bass, grilled squabs and lobster farci, plus a bluefish au vin blanc. Inevitably, the recipes used found their way into his column...
...GETZ AU GO GO (Verve). Tenor Saxophonist Stan Getz and Mrs. Gilberto again (One Note Samba, Corcovado...
...reports were terrible when he first met the pros in the Cleveland Browns-College All-Star game last Au gust. Read one: "He has trouble catching the ball, and he doesn't have good moves." Read another: "He has 9.1 speed and 12.5 hands." On that basis, the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys might well have wondered whether they had bought a lemon in Bob Hayes - a $100,000 lemon, to be exact...
...paved road in Haiti, running north from the Port-au-Prince capital of Cap-Haïtien, is now in ruins, pot-holed with foot-deep craters that all but disembowel any cars and trucks that travel it. Construction on the $40 million Artibonite Valley irrigation project has stopped, and 30-ft.-high cacti choke the rich sisal fields outside Port-au-Prince. Bankruptcies are rising sharply in the capital, and in the countryside starving peasant mothers beg visitors to buy their babies for two gourdes, or 400 U.S., in hopes that the infants will survive. The country...
Last year a handful of Haitian exiles made their way into the country and tried to rally the peasants in revolt. Nothing came of it. "Doc will stay in power,'' said a Haitian army officer in a Port-au-Prince bar. "The people know that they will be killed instantly if they get out of line." He slammed his fist on the table. "Like that," he glowered, "we will crush anyone who causes the slightest bit of trouble." And like that, Papa Doc is slowly crushing the life out of his forlorn little country...