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...consent decree and damages of $1,250 from San Francisco's famed Trader Vic restaurant for putting Danish blue cheese into Roquefort dressing. "Trader Vic's can afford it," explains the association's boss, New York Lawyer Frank O. Fredericks, "but if most restaurants had to fork up $1,250, they'd have to close their doors. It will serve as a dandy warning...
Perhaps no critic of London's Savile Row will ever surpass the wrathful British nobleman who once rode his horse into his tailor's, and while it messed up the carpet complained about his riding breeches: "Too tight at the fork and the kneepan, damn you, too baggy everywhere else!" Last week criticism in the century-old sartorial capital of the male world was being heard once again. The topic was still baggy trousers...
...When God had finished making the world," say the natives of Mani, "he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here." Petroprolific Mani is the middle tine of a twisted three-pronged peninsular fork that jabs into the Mediterranean from Greece's Peloponnesus. About as remote from the 20th century as the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Maniots dwell in a kind of telescopic time capsule that includes Homer but little more than a hint of the Industrial Revolution. Few Maniots read or write. They have no radios, movies or telephones...
...snakes, had presented dinner to an African spitting cobra, a green mamba and two Indian cobras. In the fourth cage were two tiger snakes. They had to be separated to prevent a fight to the death over food. With his "hook," a sawed-off golf club with a fork at the end, Ken tried to catch the smaller snake. It slithered away, and for a moment he overlooked its 3-ft. cage mate, coiled by the door on Ken's blind side (he lost the sight of his right eye as a child in an accident with a rubber...
Orchestra conductors, like the fork-tailed petrel, tend to be migratory in the spring. Among this season's notable migrations...