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...revolutionaries disagree. About 30 of Paris' increasingly troublesome Maoists mounted a daylight raid on Fauchon's the epicurean grocery that boasts the Duke of Windsor among its regular customers. Wearing red handkerchiefs and armed with clubs, the raiders poured into Fauchon and began shoveling foie gras and caviar into the pockets of their combat jackets. The staff organized : a counterattack against the gourmet guerrillas. When the Maoists had been driven out, the floor was awash in vintage wine and pear brandy. Next day young Maoists, sweeping into the slums of Ivry-sur-Seine and Nanterre and a shantytown...
Winston Churchill liked to start the day with a bit of grouse and a dollop of caviar. These days at 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Wilson often greets the morning with a plateful of steamed turbot. For passengers on the daily Brighton Belle train to London, it is buttered kippers or poached eggs on haddock. At certain inns across the countryside, morning brings York ham, Lancashire black pudding, deviled kidneys and broiled mushrooms. Indeed, Somerset Maugham's classic gustatory advice to overseas visitors still holds: one can eat well in Britain if one eats three breakfasts...
...TIME-Lou Harris Poll on changing morality that includes these findings: 1) Most Americans believe that "a white grocer who sells green tomatoes to a black customer is worse than a white Russian who sells red caviar on the black market," and 2) "94% believed that if God had meant man to take drugs on the street, He wouldn't have invented drugstores...
...protruding buttress. Space within the castle walls is so limited that directors of the six-hour production were forced to choose between feeding the guests or providing lavatories for them. There will be no food, so the assembled dignitaries will be forced to smuggle in their own champagne and caviar. If they want a memento of the occasion, they can take home their chairs as souvenirs at the price of $30. Onlookers in the stand outside the castle must ante up $24 each for tickets...
...villas in black Chaikas and Volgas whose windshields bore special green-and-white passes, the Communist leaders-some 300 from 75 parties-were deposited at the Kremlin before 10 a.m. each morning. After four hours of eloquence, the delegates had a two-hour break. Most of them dined on caviar and cold cuts in the first-floor dining room of the Great Kremlin Palace. In a pointed show of conviviality, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, Premier Aleksei Kosygin and other Russian leaders pulled up chairs to various tables and joined the foreign delegates. Then it was back to business...