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...handful of visitors from outside, the spectacle was a near thing to a combined operation of the Shriners, the Mardi Gras and a chorus of the Metropolitan Opera. In fact, the paraders were "We the people" of the most wide-awake land in tropical Africa: the British Gold Coast. They had gathered to cheer their leader on the third anniversary of National Liberation...
Even so, a few snippets of gossip got out. The court heard that Louis sometimes fainted at dinner, after stuffing himself to the gills. Sample menu: four soups, three terrines of foie gras, countless hors d'oeuvres, 16 meat courses, partridge, chicken, song birds, pheasant, turkey, squab, 14 desserts, creams and cakes. And Paris had ample evidence that, in her later years, Pompadour turned from mistress to madam, filled the château with a succession of pretty girls to drive away His Majesty's boredom...
...select guests promenaded past swans in a lagoon bordered by tall royal palms. In the tropical night the palace's yellow sandstone battlements looked like a set for Aïda; along them, 200 lance-bearing dragoons in plumed, gold helmets stood guard. Dinner was caviar, foie gras, pheasant and asparagus tips, followed by deep, flowery toasts in Pommery...
...Miami was recently discussing the record racing season at Hialeah. The talk in Oklahoma one week was the transfer of the 45th Infantry Division from Japan to Korea. Dallas discussed the tidelands oil fight and fretted over dust storms, and New Orleans deplored the poor weather for the Mardi Gras festival...
From across the Iron Curtain, the warning came: Hopalong Cassidy keep out. Soviet authorities in East Berlin last week laid down rules for the kind of fancy-dress costumes school kids may wear during Fasching, the month-long Teutonic version of Mardi Gras. There must be no Red Indian and Negro minstrel costumes: "These are suppressed peoples whose fight for freedom would not be supported by such masquerades." Also verboten: cowboy outfits, which represent "materialist and imperialist tendencies." Recommended substitutes: "costumes of freedom-loving and progressive peoples like the Chinese, Bulgarians and Hungarians...