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...President was in a lively mood at a party celebrating the 90th birthday of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. When his wife Pat gave the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt two jars of Iranian caviar, Nixon indiscreetly confided that it was a gift "from the Shah to Pat and from Pat to you." Advised by the President to "eat it with a spoon," the irrepressible Mrs. Longworth replied: "I'll wallow in it"-an allusion to Nixon's celebrated comment: "Let others wallow in Watergate." Asked later about the party, Nixon's Watergate resentments surfaced in an attack...
...stubborn insistence on such highly unpopular policies as Britain's retention of its own nuclear deterrent. "We should not," said Nye in one of his most famed declarations, "go naked into the conference chamber." Though he and Jennie Lee, his tough Scottish wife and fellow M.P., seldom lacked caviar or claret, Bevan railed eloquently against the Fm-all-right-Jack, never-had-it-so-good political climate in which Britain's working class celebrated its deliverance from deprivation and indignity. Throughout his career he was consistently portrayed by the press, in Foot's phrase, as "half boor...
...something else she will seek, though she notes, "This is not the time to worry about the price of caviar...
Pithy Style. Curtis, 44, has come a long way covering caviar and its consumers. She started her newspaper career as a women's reporter for the Columbus Citizen (now Citizen-Journal), and joined the Times in 1961, becoming women's news editor in 1965. She is known for her pithy writing style, and often tartly exposes the foibles of the jet set. Her scrapbook includes a satiric report on a meeting of high-powered feminists that was thrown into an uproar when one of the participants decided to go topless, and a story on Willie Morris' fall...
...Beef will become like caviar...