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...with a handful of U.S. sailing friends, decided to produce the boat himself. Famed British Naval Architect Uffa Fox got the design contract. The boat that came off Fox's drawing board, christened the Day Sailer, was enough to make an old yacht-club commodore choke...
...Choke a Duckling." The newest and perhaps best for the cook first venturing into the intricacies of French cooking, is an extraordinarily thorough cookbook called Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Knopf; $10), written by three women-one American and two French. Explaining the chemical processes that make cooking succeed (or fail), it explains in detail what most French cookbooks assume everyone knows, and carefully tells the American housewife how to adapt to the fundamental differences between French and American materials...
...mammoth Art of French Cooking (Golden; $17.50), the celebrated anthology of recipes by great French chefs published in France by Flammarion and known there simply as "Le Flammarion." It has bold recipes, going some distance toward explaining why all the outstanding chefs in history have been men. "Choke a fleshy young duckling to death," begins one, "and immediately pluck the feathers from the breast so the blood will rush...
Mississippi's civil rights record is so bad, wrote the commission, that President Kennedy should look for a way to choke off the flow of federal funds into the state. Like most Southern states, Mississippi preaches states' rights but rides first-class on the Government gravy train. Mississippi sources paid only $270 million in fiscal 1962 federal taxes, said the report. But the U.S. still poured more than $650 million into the state. It is, wrote the commission, high time for the President and Congress to recognize that "the lawless conduct and defiance of the Constitution by certain...
...Poor Serb," Slovene had moaned, "he would choke to death on a real American cake. My cousin at the Window Shop can make him something nice...