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...dinner party with the literary effete of London. He was wearing his cape and single earing and when everybody sat down to dinner he refused to eat the regular course. Instead he began to talk excitedly and pick at a rose in the centerpiece with his fork. Before anybody could say anything he ate the entire rose. When Hemingway wrote of going to dinner with Pound, however, he was speaking not about Pound's minor eccentricities, but of the poet's developing world view of politics and economics...
...best kitchens. It is the notion that people-even the French-can enjoy a memorable meal that contains only 500 calories instead of the 3,000 or more that tradition demands. No longer, as the old adage had it, need a Frenchman dig his grave with a fork. The blasphemer is an impish, outgoing, pint-sized ex-pastry chef named Michel Guérard, 42, who has invented la cuisine minceur-the cuisine of slimness...
...murky depths of the Scotia Coal Company's No. 1 Black Mountain Mine, 108 men were at work one morning last week. Suddenly, four miles from the tunnel's entrance, a violent methane-gas explosion ripped through a passageway, shaking the pine-studded mountains of Oven Fork in southeastern Kentucky. Nine men died instantly. Six others survived the blast for a time with their portable air units. But apparently thinking their way out was blocked, the six shielded themselves from fumes with pieces of canvas and awaited rescuers; they were found dead of suffocation...
...discovered what looked like a small blaze, burning away with no apparent cause. Near by he soon found the cause-a freshly dug ditch with five smoldering bodies, two women and three young boys. Off to the side were a 5-gal. gasoline can, a shovel and garden fork, and some tire tracks...
Onlookers in the Adams House dining room subdue Master Robert J. Kiely after he repeatedly stabs Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold in the chest with a fork. "Boy, is he touchy," Gold says. "All I wanted to know was where he got that flesh-colored yarmulka...