Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hans Schenk, a Swiss chef who once worked for Hughes, describes the invariable menu: two 20-oz. sirloin-strip steaks with all fat removed, boiled peas, carrots and green beans, followed by vanilla ice cream and cake. A Hughes aide would appear in the kitchen and watch to make sure that Schenk scrubbed his hands and fingernails. "I would cook his steak with a stop watch," Schenk recalls. "He wanted it medium rare, eight or nine minutes of the grill. He'd notice if it was a minute overdone." If Hughes was on the phone when dinner was served...
...scales of justice weigh heavily on a Chief Justice of the United States, so sometimes a Chief Justice weighs heavily on the scales. Especially if he is retired, like Earl Warren, 80, who has checked into Southern California's posh fat farm, La Costa, to slough off 15 lbs. in two weeks of diet and exercise. And who should be outside the doctor's office on the first day but his old friend Actress Olivia de Havilland, 56. "I was so moved to meet him again after all this time," gushed Olivia, also in for two weeks...
...will see that I'm not an enemy of private enterprise. Foreign investment will be encouraged and welcomed and never touched. In the present process, though, all of us have to be cut down to size-the "22 families," the feudal lords, the generals, the fat and flabby ones. [As for the end of martial law] I want the picture between East and West Pakistan to emerge before I take any steps in this direction-probably before the spring...
...save them as well. Anyway, George C. Scott is on hand to make things bearable, and sometimes more than that. He is such a consummate actor that he can even handle Chayefsky's dialogue, which rightfully should be engraved for posterity on a plaque made of chicken fat...
...also enjoy their colleagues' support, but so far it has done them little good. "This is naked power politics," said Tang. "The Communists brought pressure on Thant, who is Burmese. The Burmese have a saying that when China sneezes they fear a flood. Thant is retiring with a fat pension, and this is his final favor for Burma and Red China...