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...tells. He has just sold, for about $1,000,000, a cattle ranch in Nevada and published a new book, Unknown Oman. Last week, after a brief cruise in the Greek Isles, he flew to New York on the spur of the moment, went to Texas to dine with Oilman John Mecom, continued on to San Francisco and Honolulu. Next, he contemplates going to Viet Nam, where he is an accredited war correspondent for Scripps-Howard...
...birds that carry the virus for a while should be exterminated, Dr. Gebhardt emphasizes. What they do show is that mosquito-control spraying should be timed to hit the swamps in spring, when Culex tarsalis is hatching, so that bloodthirsty females of the species get no chance to dine on creatures in which the virus hibernates...
...King Saud, by Mayor Robert Wagner in 1957 nearly precipitated an international incident. But no one appeared overly perturbed last week. The Waldorf rolled out the usual red carpet for the visiting monarch, the 35th-floor presidential suite was made fit for a King, and Feisal appeared content to dine (on cold shoulder?) in his quarters. "I think," said a Saudi official, "the King is above being angered by something trivial like this...
...also liked to dine off heron, coot en cocotte, boar and sautéed squirrel ("An exquisite taste"). At times a puckish humor overcame Lautrec. His recipe for leg of lamb, for instance, required "a glacier like the Wildstrubel. Kill a young lamb from the high Alps at around 3,000 meters, during September. Cut out the leg and let it hang for three or four weeks. It should be eaten raw with horse-radish...
...determines to fill a hiatus in the historical records with a phony account of the foundations of feudalism in Sicily. He calls it The Council of Egypt. To the nobles he hints that their ancient rights may be demolished by his findings; all at once, gifts and invitations to dine pour in upon Giuseppe. To the King in Naples he insists that the nobles' rights are mythical and properly accrue to the Crown; perhaps the royal gratitude could find him a sinecure somewhere...