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...only a 2 day cold in the nose." And to his wife ("Dearest Babs") he found time to send a teasing letter declaring that, after worrying all week whether she wanted "undies, dresses, hats, shoes, sheets, towels, rouge, soup plates, candy, flowers, lamps, laxation pills, whisky, beer, etchings or caviar" for their wedding anniversary, "I GIVE...
...biggest hotel in Pyongyang is known simply as "the Russian hotel." For two full blocks around the Russian embassy in Pyongyang every house is a Russian house. On the city's main thoroughfare the Russians maintained their own commissary, a steel-shuttered building crammed with excellent wines, vodkas, caviar and cosmetics. In the embassy itself we found expensive radios and photographic equipment, heavy silver ashtrays and a completely cooked meal which the Russians never...
...feast began with sturgeon, smoked salmon and caviar on bliny (Russian pancakes). Vodka flowed, but no toasts were exchanged. After soup came partridge stuffed with wild rice. After the salad trailed bowls of fresh pineapple and sherbet. Then followed filet mignon, vegetables, a magnificent baked Alaska, and fruit again. Cracked the U.S.'s Ernest Gross: "I thought the meal was over three times before it was." Asked if it had been a Russian dinner, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb sardonically quipped: "Not Russian-Edwardian. It was one more proof that the Soviet Union is 40 years behind...
Surrounded by relatives and friends in a suite at Manhattan's Hotel Sherry Netherland, durable Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch celebrated his 80th birthday with champagne and caviar, ice cream and cake. Baruch, who back in 1947 said that he was bowing out of public life, had definitely changed his mind: "The sands are running out for me, but I'm not senile yet. I'll know when I am, and I'll shut up. But I am still able to cope with those fellows [in Washington], and I'll keep telling them what I think...
...lavish caviar & champagne banquet, attended by all the top Soviet brass, Moscow last week honored visiting Finnish Premier Urho Kekkonen. The Premier had earned his fine meal. He had just signed a five-year trade treaty that is designed to shackle stubborn little Finland's economy to Russia for good. Under the new treaty, nearly all of Finland's foreign trade will be geared to Russia: machinery, ships, lumber products and prefabricated houses in return for Soviet grain, fertilizers, raw materials and oil. Finnish sales to Russia will increase each year, making Finland ever more dependent on Soviet...