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...city's clamorous ethnic groups. Proceedings were briefly interrupted by a memorial service, then quickly resumed. Daley would have appreciated the rough-and-tumble- and the fact that the Windy City's politicians were having such trouble slicing up the political pie left by the master chef...
...this age of universal gourmandise, hardly a celebrity in the U.S. will not confess to being a closet chef. To put unsung Escoffiers in the limelight-and raise some money-the March of Dimes' New York chapter held a gourmet gala at the Waldorf-Astoria last week. Over hot stoves and chopping boards that ringed the ballroom, 26 contestants from the beautiful, the clever and the famed doggedly demonstrated their epicurean eptitude...
...cancellation will head off prospective price increases on appliances, air conditioners, mobile homes and other products. The Speed Queen division of McGraw-Edison Co., for example, dropped plans to raise the price of its washers and dryers by $10 to $20, and Magic Chef put off a proposed price hike on ranges. Whatever anti-inflationary benefits result could be short-lived, however. Few analysts are betting that steelmakers will not try for another boost before the year is out. Says one Wall Street expert: "The first half-hour that they feel the demand is there, they'll try again...
...robbers also attended to their other appetites: they apparently brought along a chef. Using a gas-powered portable stove, he whipped up a four-course meal that included soup, charcuterie, an entrée, dessert and wine. The robbers brought no dishes with them, knowing there would be plenty of fine silver plate available...
...excepting a resolutely benign BBC royalist named Frank Gillard - were surprisingly tart. Low-profile Anchor Man Robert MacNeil thought the toasts banal even by the dull standards pertaining to events of this sort; Cooking Expert Julia Child - her usual burbling self as she nibbled and chatted with White House Chef Henry Haller - let fly publicly at the undignified quality of the showfolks' contributions; and Upstairs, Downstairs' Jean Marsh took politely dim views of everything from American vegetables to the institution of monarchy. The PBS cameras, fighting through the longueurs of the event and the difficulties imposed by protocol...