Word: chateaubriand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Francisco de Assis Chateaubriand Bandeira de Mello, 75, Brazil's banty rooster of communications, whose interests were as lengthy as his name; of a heart attack; in Sao Paulo. Slick financing and a knack for marketing new ideas brought Chateaubriand an empire of newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations that at the time of his death included 89 companies; he helped bring Dictator Getulio Vargas to power in 1930, later helped pull him down. The fire diminished in 1960 after he suffered a cerebral thrombosis flared again in 1962 when he scuttled Janio Quadros' political comeback...
...Golden Lamb Inn, near Lebanon, Ohio. Old colonial inn with museum character. Serves Long Island duckling with wild rice, Chateaubriand, Virginia...
...latin's, Monterey, Calif. Grand dishes, such as bull's head complete with apple in the mouth and eyes intact, and roast imperial Russian wild boar. Boar served only on several days' notice, at $14.75. Also $20-a-plate servings of Chateaubriand, served only to parties of ten or more...
...than her money's worth. Even behind the Iron Curtain-in Bulgaria, Poland and North Viet Nam-French teachers are vigorously shaping minds to the French way of thought. In Hanoi, the Lycée Albert Sarraut has never closed its doors. Rome's Lycée Chateaubriand, considered...
...fact that it has rediscovered poverty. The plight of the poor provides lively chitchat for capital couples as they twist to Lester Lanin or uncork a bottle of Mouton-Rothschild. Party pros argue the election-year merits of the poverty issue as they slide their steak knives into a Chateaubriand. With some bitterness, Writer-Social Critic Michael Harrington observes: "I guess poverty has become fashionable...