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...largely concerns itself with the adaptation of traditional recipes to contemporary methods and lifestyles: using an electric pasta machine; preparing a ragú in 45 minutes instead of the conventional four hours. For lagniappe, the Romagnolis offer some interesting modifications of traditional formulas, such as leg of lamb with gin and lemon spaghetti. A handy companion book is Teresa Gilardi Candler's Vegetables the Italian Way (McGraw-Hill; $12.95). Candler, the daughter of a restaurant family in Turin, brings the U.S. a choice, non-cultist collection of vegetable recipes that include such rare surprises as artichoke bread, zucchini chocolate...
...very weary David S. Solomon '81, Anderson's Massachusetts student coordinator, appeared relieved that the campaign was finally over. "I'm feeling better and better," he said, pointing to the latest in a series of gin-and-tonics...
...Crete, Vandam has struggled manfully to pull himself together and raise his son Billy. He guns a BSA 350 motorcycle through the clotted streets of Cairo and chases his adversary in one memorable scene worthy of a Steve McQueen cop-pursuit flick. He also drinks a lot of gin. Humiliated and frustrated in his confrontations with the Egyptian Nazi sympathizers, he presents Follett's simple but valid editorial: "Yes. We're not very admirable, especially in our colonies, but the Nazis are worse . . . It is worth fighting. In England decency is making slow progress; in Germany...
...nearby Walt Disney studios, struck some observers as a rather poultry imitation of the U.S. national bird. Hope did not duck the issue. "He has a good makeup man," the comedian said, gamely, and confessed his own regret at not participating in the Olympics. Clucked Hope: "Too bad gin rummy and beanbag don't qualify...
Things are never as bad as they seem, however. Sometimes they are worse. But, come rain or shine, coke or gin, Marlboros or Lucky Strikes, guys or girls, you're pretty much stuck with that name on the computer print-out with the long-distance phone number and the address in Summit, New Jersey...