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...days before Johnson left the White House, the four delegations met in the French Foreign Ministry's International Conference Center, the old Hotel Majestic on the Avenue Kleber. They assembled around a new 151-foot diameter main table, built the day before and covered with green baize cloth by French carpenters under the supervision of officials from the Quai d'Orsay. It was the same room in which the U.S. and North Viet Nam had begun preliminary talks on a settlement last...
...never tells me what he wants," says Sapone. "He leaves that entirely up to me. I search for special cloth in Naples, or I wander through mountain villages in Yugoslavia and Italy looking for 'homemade' materials like Dalmatian felt or an Abruzzi velvet. Picasso loves velvet." Once Sapone delighted Picasso with a pair of cuffless, horizontally striped trousers. "I've always wanted them," said the master. "Courbet had a pair just like them...
...legacy to the world was a strange, convoluted novel called Hadrian the Seventh, in which the frustrated priest developed a fantasy of being called first to the cloth and then to the Throne of St. Peter - becoming the second English Pope in history...
Food is rationed, and so is gasoline. For Christmas each Cuban child was allotted three toys. Despite cloth rationing, some Habaneras manage to look surprisingly chic, sewing their own miniskirts and making their own net stockings. Eating out is expensive and popular, and when a restaurant adds a new dish to the standard menu of fish and rice, the news spreads quickly. Cubans call Havana La Parásita, the parasite living off the land. Each year the city dies a little more but, for the regime, Havana is not where the fate of Communism on the island will...
Princely Parasol. In A.D. 379, Hindu King Sri Parkaran Iravi Vanmar granted the village of Anjuvannam to an Indian Jewish leader named Joseph Rabban. Rabban was also given the title of prince, along with 72 proprietary rights including the privilege of levying taxes and such royal honors as "a cloth spread in front to walk on, a parasol, a drum, a trumpet and a garland." In 1524, jealous Arab merchants, accusing the Jews of trying to take over the pepper trade, stirred up a holy war against the community by Indian natives. Cranganore was sacked, its homes and synagogue burned...