Word: chefs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beautiful Evening. Ashore, the Mount Vernon grounds had been solicitously sprayed with DDT to rid them of their native gnats, mosquitoes, ants and chiggers. George Washington's white-pillared manor house was equipped with electric lights for the first time in its history. White House Chef René Verdon presided proudly over Army field kitchens that served avocado and crabmeat mimosa, poulet chasseur avec couronne de riz clamart (hunter-style chicken with rice), framboises à la crème Chantilly and petits jours secs. After dinner, the guests strolled across the lawn to rows of camp chairs, settled back...
...Begins at Home. "I am going to wield the broom," he promised on inauguration night, "by the handle." Where Kubitschek ran his palace like an open house. Quadros ran it like a Marine barracks. He tossed Kubitschek's luxurious furnishings out of the executive offices, fired the fancy chef (he prefers beef, rice and beans), returned Kubitschek's $8,000 grand piano. "Economy," he said, "begins at home." Aides no longer walked; they ran. Locks barred the presidential doors, and red and green traffic lights informed ministers when to knock, when to wait. In the halls, guards appeared...
...compliments to your chef-d'oeuvre, "Children Run Longer than Plays." To write with humor and sympathy about the humor and sympathy of someone else (Jean Kerr) is an accomplishment both rare and, in this case, well-done...
...exactly the female kind of party that we took up a career to get out of going to," she wrote. "But somehow, at the White House, it was different." Everyone clucked about Jackie's two-piece dress, a chic understatement in beige ottoman silk, and her new chef, who had worked through the night to lay on a little buffet of pates, hams, turkeys, lobster thermidor, and Hungarian goulash. Before the dessert, Jackie stood up to welcome the women in words thai women understood...
...invested a total of $348,800.000 in the four media in 1960, a bare 1% increase over 1959. There was only minor reshuffling among the top ten: American Home Products (Equanil, Anacin, Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Foods) and General Mills (Wheaties, Bisquick, Betty Crocker baking mixes) each advanced two notches; Lever Brothers and Ford fell back...