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...cuisine at the Château Chantilly killed himself rather than face the Sun King without enough fish for his pièce de résistance. Fortunately, no such tragedy marred last week's visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth to France, although one great cake prepared in her honor collapsed from the heat before she got to it and had to be hurriedly propped up. No one's life was held forfeit, and the first visit of a reigning British queen since Victoria was such a success (except for a royal umbrella lost at Orly...
...Crimson added some frosting to the cake, scoring two insurance runs on some heads-up base running in the sixth. Cleary laid down a perfect suicide squeeze bunt to score Haughey from third and Bergantino from second, which proved to be more than enough to send the partisan crowd home content. Box Score AB H R RBI Bergantino 5 0 1 0 Cleary 4 2 1 2 Simourian 4 2 1 0 Hastings 4 2 1 1 Botsford 4 1 1 0 Getch 3 2 1 2 Stahura 3 0 0 0 Haughey 4 1 1 0 McGinnis...
...from Carder's to replace one she lost; Renault will give her a new car-her favorite pastel blue; and the municipality of Paris will crack open an ancient bottle of cognac. There will be-among heaps of succulent goodies at every turn-a seven-layered, 72-lb. cake on a bed of crimson candy roses from the pastry cooks and confectioners of the Société de la Saint-Michel. And for the visiting Queen's own very private use, there will be a single crystal flagon of perfume concocted with the help of the most...
There was time, too, for informal gaiety in Rome. St. Patrick's Day was Pat's birthday (44), and in a large sitting room of the Grand Hotel she had a party, puffed out 21 candles, cut a giant four-tier cake, received a basket of roses from Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, and from the Nixon press party an ivory-handled umbrella...
There they heard the piercing wails of ancient reed pipes and flutes. Priests in multicolored robes raised high their offerings-bean cake, teal ducks, brightly polished apples, flasks of rice wine. A special envoy of Emperor Hirohito bore a green, silk-covered chest emblazoned in gold with the Imperial 16-petal chrysanthemum seal. The celebration's chief speaker, Kashihara's Mayor Saburo Yoshikawa, 41, who has exchanged his Japanese Imperial General Staff major's uniform for white gloves and morning coat, was in excellent form. "It is only human nature to love one's country...