Word: caviar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even less for freedom. For a royal banquet at Golestan Palace, Brezhnev specified in advance that proper dress would be a business suit (the Empress appeared in a filmy black gown, without her tiara). He visibly caused raised eyebrows at one dinner by licking his fingers after heaping caviar on a slice of toast. Riding through the streets of Teheran in a gilded coach, Brezhnev defied custom when he turned his back on the Shah in his eagerness to wave back to crowds shouting Zindehbad Rafiq ("Long Live the Comrade...
Elsa Maxwell gave to the world of society, in which boredom is the occupational disease, an illusion that it was composed of marvelously amusing people having a wonderful time. They thanked her for it by giving her a free ride through the caviar-and-champagne life, the transatlantic life, the gaspy-gossipy life, which she enjoyed so much that she made lots of other people enjoy it too. She was a clown always ready and willing to take a pratfall, and she was often compared to a court jester. But Elsa was really a kind of super cruise director, working...
...record oil revenues of nearly $400 million this year and massive U.S. aid ($157 million in 1962), the national budget is balanced and the treasury even boasts a small surplus. Fortnight ago, the government signed a trade agreement with the Common Market, lowering European tariffs on Iranian carpets, caviar and various other products...
...founded back in 1949 by Frank N. Cardullo, who noticed that the delicacy counter at his restaurant, the Wursthaus, was doing enough business to justify a major investment. Mr. Cardullo prides him-himself on the variety of his pates de foie gras and the quality of his fresh caviar...
...Early this month Daughter Susan, 12, and Son Mark, 9, flew off to Copenhagen and summer camp. When they found out they were to fly by Soviet Aeroflot jet, they asked their mother to fix peanut-butter sandwiches. Explained Susan: "You can't expect us to eat caviar all the way to Copenhagen...