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Apart from worrying over whether his dashboard clock will tick too loudly, the Rolls-Royce owner has one big concern: Should he entrust his car to just any parking attendant when he goes out to dine? In Hollywood last week, Rolls-Royce owners rejoiced over the news that this had ceased to be a problem. A new restaurant, the Fairchild, opened on La Cienega Boulevard's restaurant row, with two collegiate parking attendants, one of whom handles just any old American car, the other babies the foreign jobs, especially the Rollses. In fact, the fellow fits covered, foam-rubber...
...because of demands made by U.S. visitors-particularly Congressmen. In 1959, some 200 Congressmen stopped by in Madrid, all deserving of hospitality from Ambassador John Lodge. Ambassador to Brazil John Moors Cabot, who usually spends $5,000 from his own pocket on entertainment, has had to wine and dine 28 U.S. Governors and their wives and half a dozen congressional groups in the last six months. Says he: "You've just got to do something about them...
...chalky powder* and mix their lunch in a paper cup. Drugstores serve the stuff across the soda fountains, and manufacturers are even shipping it ready-mixed in handy cans. Metrecal distributors have filled orders from Saudi Arabian royalty and the King of Greece. The well-heeled businessmen who dine at Denver's Twenty-Six Club drink it; so do the spring-training players of the Birmingham Barons. Food Editor Marjorie Barrett of Denver's Rocky Mountain News wrote about her Metrecal diet, soon became the spiritual leader of a kind of Fatsos Anonymous, whose backsliding members gained great...
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Coward returns to Harry's wicked island, or one just like it, in what turns out to be, surprisingly enough, this all-round entertainer's first novel, written at 60. Years have passed, and less corruptible missionaries have done their work in Samolo.* The natives now dine on the tourists' bounty, not on the tourists. In fact, the place has become so civilized that it possesses a Royal Governor, a fairly intricate gin-drinking plantocracy, and is an important enough bastion of empire to occasion a visit by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip...