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Intellectual Caviar. The people who want the highbrow Third Programme have never numbered more than 1,500,000, compared to the 45 million who listen to BBC's middlebrow Home network and the lowbrow Light Programme. But this small minority can tune in on the best brains, the best music and the best drama Britain can produce. Not all of the Third's intellectual caviar is equally palatable: it ranges from odd items like "An Ecologist among the Hopi" to Scientist Fred Hoyle's exciting series of lectures on the universe, which proved so popular that they...
...Stokes flew off from Teheran, the farewell was symbolically bleak. Save for the Minister of Roads and Communications, only bureaucratic underlings saw him off. The only official gift was a huge pail of caviar. Students standing by yelled, "Borol Boro...
...America had not and did not need to have any significant trade with the Soviet ; it means little or nothing to her to discontinue the imports of furs, caviar and crab. With us, things are quite different. We obtain from the Soviet bloc essential foods and raw materials [timber and grain]-and we believe that in these trade exchanges we get as good as we give, economically and strategically...
...Teheran Bell found people so hospitable that it was hard to get work done. In cablese he reported, "eye got coffee running out one ear, tea outa other . . . learned love caviar teheran where tis but six bits for all you can eat. budget going to take hell of beating when eye get home, learned like vodka, only approximation dry martini teheran...
...policy to bring the Middle East into the Western camp, no safe end is in sight to Mohammed Mossadeq's fantastic national adventure. Meanwhile, the only people to profit from the situation will be the Iranian Communists and their Soviet Russian friends. In Teheran last week, at a caviar and vodka garden party at the Russian embassy, guests noticed that Ambassador Ivan Vasilievich Sadchikov was in an unusually good mood, generally seemed the most contented man in sight...