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...that back over five years. We got another 10,000 rubles' (($15,000)) credit at 3% interest for start-up costs, but we've only needed 5,000." The loans paid for the restoration and redecoration of an elegant old building in turn-of-the-century style, including damask wall coverings and antique light fixtures. Although the part- time waitresses and kitchen help must be paid salaries no less than they would earn in public catering jobs, Fyodorov says the partners expect to earn a minimum of 350 rubles ($525) a month each and possibly more than 500 rubles...
Waiters are usually instructed to clear dishes promptly so that adding machines and balance sheets can be displayed across the damask. With office appointments looming, discussions move briskly to their conclusion. Says Ed Meyer, chairman of Grey Advertising: "Breakfast is self-limiting; it's shorter, quicker and more efficient." Meyer likes to be finished eating and off to his office...
Even as good an actress as Jean Marsh is not well cast as Viola. She has some fine comic bits, to be sure, but her studied performance in general lacks Redgrave's sparkle. And she scants much of the lovely verse--such as the "damask cheek" speech, which she virtually throws away...
...damask-hung walls of the Senate chamber reverberated with the longest, most heartfelt outpouring of affection and admiration that anyone could remember. Hubert Humphrey had returned to the place he loves "with blind devotion." Eleven weeks after doctors discovered that his pelvic cancer had spread and was beyond surgery, the "Happy Warrior" of the Democratic Party was back at the desk he has occupied for 21 years. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela reports...
...frills President, but that did not deter the British from launching one extravagant scene after another. At the Buckingham Palace dinner given by Queen Elizabeth II, gold-tunicked trumpeters of the Household Cavalry heralded the approaching guests. In the sumptuous state dining room, all rich red damask, velvet, marble, mahogany and gold, an eight-course feast (including salmon, chicken, carrots and string beans) was served on gold plates by footmen in scarlet tails and white waistcoats, assisted by pages. Jimmy Carter dined between the Queen and her sister, Princess Margaret. Early Sunday morning Carter attended services at a nearly empty...