Word: filets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyed daughter of Teamster Boss Jimmy, married Robert Crancer, 24, son of St. Louis' Valley Steel Products Co. President Lester A. Crancer. After a Methodist ceremony, Mother Josephine Poszywak Hoffa called the shots according to the traditions of her Polish ancestors. Beginning with a 2 p.m. wedding breakfast-filet mignon and champagne for 300 at Detroit's Latin Quarter-the festivities continued with a 6 p.m. reception at which 750 guests danced to the music of a polka band and gorged on such delicacies as kielbasa (sausage) and sweet-and-sour sauerkraut. Toward midnight, as per Polish custom...
...quite a political education outside-and beyond-the textbooks since moving to Washington, D.C., in 1949. First for the United Press and then for TIME, he has spent the intervening years covering the Senate, the White House and the House of Representatives. An amateur falconer, something of a chef (filet of sole bonne femme) and with "a somewhat exaggerated reputation as a wine connoisseur," MacNeil gets his professional kicks in watching the congressional drama in the closed committee rooms, the cloakrooms and the lobbies where, long before the voting, the real decisions are made. He first watched cover subject Larry...
...available; butter is distributed at the rate of a half-pound per person every ten days; beef is a rare luxury. To push a substitute. Ulbricht's regime in 1959 introduced "pony bars," restaurants that sell nothing but horse meat and urge customers to try "stallion steak," "foal filet," "goulash from the harness...
Executives of the airlines have come to realize that low fares and on-time performance attract more passengers than do frills and filet mignons. Eastern Air Lines has had good success with its new air shuttle linking New York, Washington and Boston with older prop planes. Passengers have no reservations but are promised a seat, pay for their tickets aboard. Fares are lower (by some 16%) in return for Spartan service (passengers wheel their own bags to the loading gate, and water is the only flight-time refreshment). Profit-making United Air Lines is trimming costs by serving more modest...
...world's greatest iron deposits push through Brazilian earth in mountains of solid ore-65 billion tons, 35% of the world's total reserves, much of it the 60% hematite that steelmen call "filet mignon...