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Precise 15°/. The Chinese delegation, accompanied by two newsmen and 40 clerks, assistants, typists and chefs, moved into Manhattan in style. They rented chauffeur-driven Cadillacs to get around town (at $12 an hour) and took over the entire 72-room 14th floor of the Roosevelt Hotel-except for one room occupied for 25 years by an elderly widow who refused to move out. The midtown pad cost the People's Republic at least $2,160 per night. The hotel responded nimbly to every request from the Chinese. Color television sets and hot plates were added to every...
...some estimates, possibly exaggerated, more than 1,000,000 pilgrims have journeyed to the general's off-white marble grave, where he lies beside his daughter Anne. The people come with flowers and handmade crosses of Lorraine, plaques and crude placards reading "To our leader," "notre grand chef" "to our liberator," "notre grand général." They come in battered deux-chevaux, creaking farm wagons, sleek Citroëns, by chartered trains and buses. General Jacques Massu, who was once sacked for his split with De Gaulle over Algeria and later won his way back into favor...
...graphics, funky score, zonky electronic effects and berserk wit. It takes healthy cognizance that the TV generation is into games Dick and Jane never played. Fargo North Decoder, is a crack word detective, Easy Reader a hip-talking addict of the printed word, and Julia Grownup a butterfingered TV chef, whose recipes become a kind of primer. There are parodies of soap operas, TV quiz shows (Wild Guess) and the film 2001, but some of the sassiest material seems lifted from the "Chitlin'," or black vaudeville circuit...
...circular gold tin and a tall, lidded cup of green jasmine tea. As a host, Huang has become known for his determination to keep conversation light and innocuous and for his eagerness to reach out to all sorts of people. But above all, he has become known for his chef, who specializes in the hot, spicy cuisine of Szechwan province. One member of a group of 15 Canadian amateur sportsmen who recently dined at the embassy recalls that toasts were made "to us, to you, to sport, to friendship between our two countries. Every time we took a sip, they...
...years Butcher Jack Savenor of Cambridge, Mass., has counted French Chef Julia Child as one of the steadiest customers at his United Service Supermarket, which is said to offer the best cuts in New England. Whatever the quality of the meat, though, the underground paper Boston After Dark has now accused Savenor of short-weighting. A B.A.D. reporter bought a whole rib of beef, which he says Savenor weighed at 40 Ibs.; on the scales of the Boston Bureau of Weights and Measures, it came to 35 Ibs. A rib marked at 35 Ibs. weighed only 32 Ibs. on Savenor...