Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...genius for detail. A onetime aspiring singer, Carrara abandoned his career when his money ran out, now works during the day as a salesman, has been claquing evenings for ten years. Alabisio was a top La Scala tenor under Toscanini in the 1920s. Their basic claque (which they can beef up to 40 on important evenings) includes singing students, teachers, music lovers and two barbers. Perhaps the most dedicated is Claqueur Nino Grassi, 60, who has clapped professionally at La Scala since he was ten years old. Carrara and Alabisio attend every La Scala dress rehearsal, talk to the leading...
...adventure. "Plenty of lolly [money] and plenty of fun," said a South African masseur who had joined Katanga's army. One adventurer nostalgically recalled a successful campaign against a U.N. supply depot. "We lived like kings on the loot we found there," he says. "A pile of corned beef and 150,000 bottles of beer...
Dining hall officials also requested that they be informed of the meals and dishes which students like. Miss Atkinson, the dietitian, reported that a Sunday dinner of roast beef and french fried potatoes had been well received in the Union. The students like french fries, she said. Wiggins asked what kind of french fries were used. "I don't like frozen french fries," he announced...
...Central Kitchen tries to offer roast beef at least twice a week, because beef is most popular with the students, Miss Atkinson said. Roast and fried chicken are also popular. "But we have to run lamb and veal sometimes," Miss Atkinson stated. "After all, we have just so many animals...
...Futterman, 33, steely-minded dynamo of the real estate industry who in seven years of 100-hour work weeks rose from a $300-a-month Manhattan rent collector to the presidency of his own corporation, boasting $100 million assets in 27 cities; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Manhattan...