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...series of warehouses throughout the country sit cases and cases of canned lobster bisque, onion soup, lamb stew and various other delicacies-more than 2,000,000 cans in all-that may or may not contain deadly poison. They represent the entire stock of foods processed by Bon Vivant Soups Inc., which were seized by the Food and Drug Administration two years ago after a botulism-tainted Bon Vivant vichyssoise killed a New York banker...
Since there is no way of testing every can, the Government now wants to destroy the entire lot. Bon Vivant, which has resumed operations as Moore & Co. Soups, wants to get back its property for resale. It argues that there is no reason to suspect poison in the foods, which are worth an estimated...
...Federal Judge Lawrence Whipple in a nonjury trial last week, both sides were ready with mighty rhetorical flourishes. "The consumer must not unknowingly be placed in a position of playing a life-or-death game of Russian roulette when it comes to the food he eats," said the prosecutor. Bon Vivant's lawyer answered that such a charge amounted to "scare tactics designed to get a decision based on passion." The prosecutor promised to bring in "perhaps three dozen" microbiologists to prove his case. Bon Vivant's principal owner, Mrs. Maria Paretti, insisted that the food was perfectly...
...ignoring or minimizing them, which in the end only magnified the difficulties. Building understanding, nurturing belief, and preserving the integrity of the presidency was their real job, not running motorcades and guarding the office door. It is of considerable interest that the Administration's leading humorist and bon vivant-its most accessible major official-is Henry Kissinger, untouched by scandal and clearly the man who has achieved the most...
Dubuffet's position is odd. The products of a foe of "orthodox" beauty, his tarry clumps of mud and orange peel, highly insured, decorate half the bon bourgeois salons of Paris. The author of many eloquent tracts, he speaks in defense of incoherence and illiteracy as poetic principles. An intellectual, Cartesian to the fingertips and a close friend of such literary eminences as Raymond Queneau, Jean Paulhan and FranÇois Ponge, he has based 30 years of work on the premise that Western culture is a grotesque irrelevancy. Dubuffet is indeed a quintessentially French figure...