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...astronauts were kept in semi-quarantine; their contacts were limited to wives and selected NASA officials, as doctors tried to shield them from infections that would interfere with the medical tests. For 21 days the astronauts must also continue to eat Skylab-type prepackaged food, a teetotaling, less-than-gourmet diet that was particularly hard on Commander Carr; in space he dreamt continually of savoring his favorite cold beer while watching football on TV. The astronauts took the restrictions in stride. As they reported for their medical examinations at the Johnson Space Center, Flight Surgeon Jerry Hordinsky commented: "You would...
...Holiday Inn located at 30 Washington Street, corner of Inner Belt Road, is scheduled to open January 1974. This ultra-modern 9 story Inn will offer 189 sleeping rooms, an indoor swimming pool and whirlpool saunas, gourmet restaurant and lounge with nightly entertainment and beautifully decorated function space capable of seating 360 persons for business meetings or social activities. The Somerville location is one of 11 Holiday Inns in Massachusetts and New York owned and operated by Northeast Motel Operation, Inc. under a franchise agreement with Holiday Inns...
HEREIN is the most grotesque sort of debauchery, growing only gradually out of an urbane but decadent sensuality. Gourmet sophisticates become maniacal gluttons; a plump school teacher becomes a ravenous Rubensian voluptuary. The characters are, for the most part, reluctant even to talk about the secret of their gathering--that they have come as suicides. Gradually, their festival of grand cuisine dissolves in a death-charged, sex-charged bacchanal...
Contrary to our review in The Crimson Gourmet Guide we have not raised our prices since our store opened in January 1972, even though the wholesale cost of ice cream, cones, paper goods, labor and taxes have increased...
...years, despite the introduction of many labor-saving devices during that period. Actually, Vanek found, the new appliances did save women time in specific routine tasks such as food preparation and laundry. But most of the women had apparently invented new kinds of housework to take up the slack: gourmet cooking, the direction of children's play, household management and shopping...