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...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 for the customers...
Before we left Hanoi, we were treated to a sumptuous banquet in a Soviet compound (compliments of the North Vietnamese government) that included classical French delicacies, Russian champagne and Vietnamese rice and orange wines. As the lights, which flickered on and off throughout the meal, continued to wink, we puffed on "Dien Bien Phu" cigarettes...
Bourgeois decadence department: On Tuesday night the members of the Harvard Club of Boston got a treat. After polishing off their chocolate mousse at a black-tie banquet the members watched two fighters mix it up in a ring set up in the dining room...
Although Starr was seeded first in this year's Easterns, he was plagued with bad luck and tougher opponents. After losing the semi-finals he settled for fifth place. At a squad banquet last week, Starr received the Ames award for the most valuable wrestler on the team...
Lest skeptics complain that such analyses are the product of overactive imaginations, Sinologists relate a revealing vignette from President Nixon's visit to Peking. After the banquet in the Great Hall of the People, Premier Chou En-lai went off to a corner. There he was shown the People's Daily front-page layout of pictures of the Nixon trip. That historic issue went to press only after Chou-the world's most famous part-time editor-approved...