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Since Time magazine helped round up this exhibit, there are three examples of its cover portraits. On a light blue background, Bernard Buffet showed us a lined and ascetic Charles de Gaulle. In a departure from his usual semi-abstractionism, Rufino Tamayo outlined the face of Mexican President Lopez Mateos on green and red, as seen through a white Milky Way, Andrew Wyeth did a vapid semi-profile of Dwight Eisenhower that reflects the subject more closely than the painter realized...
...Class of 1961 and Alumni Buffet (Eliot House...
...smoking had previously been discouraged at such White House functions, ashtrays were scattered about. Glass bowls contained alcoholic (domestic champagne) and unspiked punches; to guide teetotalers the nonalcoholic drink was garnished with oranges, the darker-hued champagne version with strawberries. In the State Dining Room there was a mammoth buffet of chicken à la king, roast beef, pheasant, tongue, turkey and ham. Footman John Pye, a White House servant since the days of Woodrow Wilson, declared it the finest spread of his tenure. By 11:45 the presidential host (who learned of the Cuban debacle just before the party began...
...career to get out of going to," she wrote. "But somehow, at the White House, it was different." Everyone clucked about Jackie's two-piece dress, a chic understatement in beige ottoman silk, and her new chef, who had worked through the night to lay on a little buffet of pates, hams, turkeys, lobster thermidor, and Hungarian goulash. Before the dessert, Jackie stood up to welcome the women in words thai women understood...
Through previous centuries, eating changed by nearly imperceptible degrees, and mostly toward just getting enough. Now big forces buffet food. For the first time in history, the U.S. has produced a society in which less than one-tenth of the people turn out so much food that the Government's most embarrassing problem is how to dispose inconspicuously of 100 million tons of surplus farm produce. In this same society, the plain citizen can with an average of only one-fifth his income buy more calories than he can consume. Refrigeration, automated processing and packaging conspire to defy season...