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...remain serenely above the fray. He took a daily swim in his pool (a tanker had spilled oil near Nixon's ocean beach while on a refueling operation) and also went out to dinner at one of his favorite restaurants, El Adobe in San Clemente, where he met the chef and chatted with some customers...
...leading European importer of strawberries, plans to charter about 20 Boeing 707s this spring to carry 1,600,000 Ibs. from California to the Continent. There is a growing demand among dessert-loving West Germans for U.S. strawberries: Hamburg's Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten prefers serving them because, says Chef Oskar Behrmann, "they have the best aroma." Between March 1 and May 10, the big season for imported strawberries in Germany, the U.S. berries virtually eclipse the scrawnier varieties from Mexico and Israel...
...Viet Nam War, Crum befriended three civilian officials of the Army-Air Force Regional Exchange in Saigon. They were in charge of transferring PX functions from the Navy to their own branch, and Crum put them up in a $1,600-a-month Saigon villa. He gave them a chef and maid service and provided them with large quantities of liquor and women. His reward: a $1,000,000 contract for jukeboxes in all American installations in Viet...
James Cash Penney's first venture as a retail proprietor-a butchershop in Longmont, Colo.-opened in 1899 and failed almost immediately, after he refused to bribe an important local hotel chef with a weekly bottle of bourbon. "I lost everything I had," said Penney, "but I learned never to compromise...
...Julia Child is not a put-on manufactured by an industry on the make for the scarcer and scarcer kuick buck. Her authenticity and expertise are unquestionable, and her enormous memory stocked with the hardcore of haute cuisine essentials marks her as a master chef. Julia Child is a great cook, a very funny lady, and a cult object; the publication of Volume Two of Mastering the Art of French Cooking is accordingly a major event in high-calorie pockets around this country...