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...along the lines of "I think-you're crazy to-stand another minute-of-that," and that it seemed to be pushing several of brink of divorce. So she found herself in the horrifying position of agreeing with, of all people. Midge Decter, arch anti-feminist, who sees CR groups as potential homewreckers; but Ephron's words carry much more weight, because you know how it hurts her to have to say them...
...Canada's Pierre Trudeau, the trip to Mont Saint-Grégoire east of Montreal had all the look of the Prime Minister's baby-holding, mama-kissing campaign days. While some 1,000 guests of the Mont Royal Liberal Association picnicked on French Canadian baked beans, crēpes and oreilles de krist, Trudeau mixed with the voters, then gulped down a mouthful of the day's specialty -snow-hardened maple syrup. The political party lingered through the day, but Trudeau left early for the return trip to Ottawa and Wife Margaret, who, the Prime Minister...
...This," declared Master Chef Danny Kaye, "is Empress Chicken with Devoted Eunuch Vegetables." His audience, ten Bay Area gourmets who had enlisted for a cordon crêpe de Chine course at Mme. Cecilia Chiang's restaurant, The Mandarin, was suitably impressed, gasping as a duck skin was brutally inflated with a bike pump to demonstrate how to make Peking duck. Kaye started coming to class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home...
...works; of an apparent heart attack; in Geneva. Just after World War I, Milhaud became a member of Les Six, an informal group of irreverent young composers. His racy treatment of Brazilian popular songs, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, caused an uproar at its Paris première. La Création du Monde, the 1923 ballet that is perhaps his masterpiece, was the first major classical composition effectively to incorporate elements of jazz. Of Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout World War II he taught at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., then shuttled between Paris...
...night he gathered a few tuxedoed stalwarts from the Hill for roast sirloin au jus and crépes suzette. That wise and respected patriarch, Vermont's George Aiken, who is retiring from the Senate, was on his right, and Nixon hoisted a glass to Aiken's 33 years of legislative wisdom...