Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Several Harvard team members are going to downhill training camps out west over Christmas vacation. The Rocky Mountain Ski Association has invited two freshmen--Steven Bainbridge and John Orear--to a camp at Aspen. Sophomore Michael Cook will be at a Sun Valley camp sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Ski Association...
ZERALDA'S OGRE by Tomi Ungerer (Harper & Row; $3.95). This lonely ogre has sharp teeth, a big nose, a bad temper and he sometimes eats little children for breakfast that is, until he meets Zeralda, who is such a good cook that he swiftly switches to pompano, roast chicken and other goodies. Though it may sound scary to adults, it is the kind of story that is invariably amusing to children and the youngsters will love the menacing drawings. Also recommended: Ungerer's Moon Man, a story of the man in the moon's brief visit to earth...
...enjoyed the tales as much as the public. They called him as taciturn as Coolidge, and he boasted that he had gone eight years in Congress without making a speech. They called him a miser and-though a multimillionaire-he employed his wife as full-time secretary and cook. He doted on hunting, fishing, poker and pungent Mexican cigars, loved his sour-mash bourbon and glorified convivial nipping as "striking a blow for liberty." Many a blow was struck with congressional leaders of both parties and with his protégés, Sam Rayburn and Wilbur Mills. In those...
JOSEPH E. COOK...
...Even a cook can rule a state," Lenin once proclaimed in his dogmatic fashion. Today, Russia is ruled by committee rather than by a single man-and thus is afflicted with too many cooks in the kitchen. They are an elite of highly trained and sophisticated technical managers, who call themselves a kollektivnost rukovodstva, (collectivity of leadership). Though they continue to follow the general policies set down by Khrushchev, they have replaced the lush disorder and impulsiveness of his personalized government with more deliberate, rational procedures. They move only after elaborate consultations, try to be not only secretive but faceless...