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...kitchen of a local electric company, where she puts in about 19 hours of preparation for each half-hour show. If she is going to flute a mushroom on the air, she has to flute one in rehearsal too. For dishes that take time, she cooks to various stages beforehand, so that she can compress an entire process of, say, four hours, into 30 minutes. By the end of a show about the preparation of one duck, for example, there will be a duck in the oven, another freshly stuffed on the counter, a stand-by duck...
...athletic, he won an Olympic Games yachting gold medal in 1960, becoming the first Greek Olympic winner in half a century. Last year Constantine became engaged to his cousin, 17-year-old Princess Anne-Marie of Denmark, whom he will marry next January. "Our engagement was sudden, not planned beforehand by our parents," he said. "It was the first time in my life I took a decision without asking my father." King Paul's operation came four days after Papandreou achieved a smashing triumph at the polls. The new Premier's middle-of-the-road Center Union coalition...
...only complaint could be that the singers' words could not be understood most of the time, even though they were English; unless one knew beforehand, it would have been hard to learn what was going...
...Bunting said that night she expects neither the Administration nor the College Council, both of which have power to revoke social legislation, to take such action. "I would certainly hope that if either group had had strong objections they would have made them beforehand and would not act afterwords unless the change runs into trouble...
...toward peace." Pope Paul VI, gesturing animatedly, often clasping his hands in prayer, replied: "Your Holiness, we must bring our churches closer together. It will not be easy, but we are already on the right road. Nothing is insurmountable in our striving to unite mankind, but we must unite beforehand...