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...tutor. But the fellows of Brasenose College asked him to lunch. "It was a marvelous lunch," W.T.S. Stallybrass remembers, "with Château Yquem and green Chartreuse." When it was over, the fellows asked him to stay and join them. He said yes-if he could always dine that well...
...special session last spring spent more than one-fourth of its time wrangling over procedure, at an estimated cost (for salaries, overhead, etc.) of more than $500,000; 2) from now on, they would have to do without meat twice a week (Tuesday and Friday) if they chose to dine at U.N. eateries. Purpose: to help save food...
...Advance S.O.S. Headquarters in Valognes, France, August 1944, Lee had to dine off gold-edged china and gold-encrusted goblets. Why criticize him now for what he and the brass did all through the war ? Once a star goes on an officer's shoulders they expect to be treated as a deity. ... It will all be "whitewashed" as usual. . . . That's the Army...
...point out to [her] that "Spartan Wives" are learning, not at the college level (as she recommends) but on the my-life-my-belly level, about science (is baby really sick enough to need a doctor? We dine on oatmeal for a week if she is), philosophy (some way must be found to cope with trouble and frustration . . .), economics (obviously), and sociology (living in a factory-hand or trailer-camp community is more enlightening than any text...
...friendliness between his nation and the U.S. He will sleep in the White House, be honor guest at a state dinner. He will address a joint session of Congress. In New York City, before swinging south for an inspection of TVA, he will get a ticker-tape reception, dine with government, financial and business bigwigs at the Waldorf-Astoria. But President Aléman, the first Mexican President to visit the U.S. capital, is headed for Washington and New York on more than white-tie business. His Government, only five months in office, wants U.S. money to help along...