Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tundra Killer. Berg discovered the sciomyzid's taste for snails quite by accident. While doing research in Alaska on mosquito control, he occasionally dipped sciomyzid larvae from tundra pools. One afternoon he happened to put a single larva into a dish along with five snails. Half an hour later, he had a chilling surprise: "I saw the larva with its head thrust into the opening of a snail shell, its mouth hooks working. When I came back the next morning, the larva had pulled out, but half the soft parts of the snail were gone...
...dinner, appreciation is shown by "the fact that you eat well and probably get slightly drunk." Since Chinese dinners run to eight courses, one should never be the first to take food from a new dish or eat much of what is served at meal's end. It indicates that hunger has not been satisfied-and will probably bring on whole new courses...
...gathered in Paris for the haute couture fall previews, have got to headline something, and Christian Dior's Marc Bohan had just given them nothing-sacred necklines. Jacques Heim, breaking with top secret tradition, called in photographers and gave them permission to expose to the world his deep-dish evening dresses. It was a fun way to liven up a dull week, but Paris has long since taken bosoms to her heart...
...where Wayne runs a grog shop, he promptly plops her into the lagoon. Then he dumps her in a canoe, knocks her down in the surf, drags her to his Jeep. When she squeals, he sneers. Can't take it, huh? But next day she proves she can dish it out: she beats him in a swimming race. He reluctantly admits she's a good guy and offers her a lei, but she holds out for a wedding ring, and in the end he has to face the awful truth: boys will be boys but wives are always...
...Music Fair, Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton, 45, had to take off his hat to Actress Mamie Van Doren, 30. The State G.O.P. gleaned $100,000 from a $100-a-plate Straw Hat Spectacular. And Mamie, an after-dinner treat in Silk Stockings, turned out to be the best dish of all, adding her own gossamer footnote to history. "My dressing room was very girly-girly," she reported later. "We didn't talk much. I thought he was a little flushed when he came in. Then I told him I was a Republican, and he gave...