Word: beluga
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...distance, in the opening last month in the venerable Ritz Hotel of London's newest and most elegant casino. More than 350 guests, including the Countess of Suffolk, the Baron de Montesquieu and the prince of thespian cool, James Mason, consumed 300 lobsters, 25 Ibs. of beluga caviar and 50 cases of Dom Perignon champagne while inaugurating wheels and tables that insouciantly accommodate $8,000 wagers at a clip. "Nice, isn't it?" a Ritz entrepreneur observed demurely. "In London, there's something for everyone...
...only an evolutionary oddity were it not for the million little black globules nestled in the average female's ovaries. If Mama is called Acipenser huso and comes from the Black Sea or the Caspian, her eggs may wind up in the U.S. as Iranian or Russian beluga caviar worth $200 a pound. The good news is that federal aid, abetted by academic enterprise, private initiative and a dash of Iron Curtain intrigue, may soon put this exquisite fishy fudge on middle-income toast...
...morels ($5.95 per oz.) to a $1,000 espresso-cappuccino machine, has increased its sales sixteenfold over the past dozen years. Says Co-Owner Murray Klein: "We have never seen such an explosion of food buying." Supermarkets from coast to coast now stock such onetime exotica as game pates, Beluga caviar, imported mustards, goat and sheep cheese, leeks, shallots, scallions, bean curd, pea pods, bok choy, capers, curries, coriander and cornichons...
...from the U.S. As the money ran out, the maharanee, now 54, had to pawn her jewels. But burdened with annual interest payments of $200,000, she was recently forced to sell them at a secret auction. The gems went for $4 million, which should keep the maharanee in Beluga gray for a couple of years. Her reputation for extravagance, however, was ruined. Said one casino habitue empathetically: "You can hide good luck but not misfortune...
...Hills Hotel. The assistant chef had spent five days in the freezer molding the names of Newlyweds Dean Martin, 55, and Catherine Mae Hawn, 25, into a massive ice sculpture of hearts and cherubs. Under 15 hanging cages of cooing white doves, 85 guests enjoyed Dean's favorite beluga caviar ($190 a pound) and Dom Pérignon ($33 a bottle). The bride and groom stayed only an hour, then returned to the site of the wedding: Dean's Bel Air mansion, decorated to resemble a chapel, complete with dark oak pews borrowed from two movie studios...