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...make up so large and diverse a culinary discipline. Passions run high in defense of personal favorites and the proper way to make them: Should the bread that holds tuna salad be white or rye, plain or toasted? Is mayonnaise, Russian dressing, butter or mustard the correct spread for ham or turkey or roast beef? Does lettuce have any place at all in a sandwich of sliced meat, and if so, should the lettuce ever be iceberg? The Easterner regards the California predilection for mayonnaise on hamburgers as strictly an aberration, and to true New Yorkers who order street-corner...
...even bother to mention the nuts and bolts of the Harvard education because, after four years, we are so accustomed to the limitations and failings of the undergraduate program that we largely take them for granted--much in the same way that we mutely accept the weekly onslaught of ham and "schrod...
Often the boss himself will grab the limelight and ham it up. Barry Ross, 43, owner of Houston's Superior Waterbeds, was watching a disk jockey tape a spot for his firm seven years ago when he got frustrated with the hireling's laid-back style. Recalls Ross: "I wanted an irritant to wake somebody up during the early morning." He grabbed the microphone and began wildly shouting out lines. "When the engineer played it back," Ross says, "it sounded so good that I told the deejay to go home." In one zany Fourth of July ad, Ross dressed like...
...Tuesday, Annis Kofman, a Dutch amateur radio enthusiast, reported picking up a broadcast in which a distraught ham operator near Chernobyl announced that two units were ablaze and spoke of "many hundreds dead and wounded." In Kofman's account, the man cried, "We heard heavy explosions! You can't imagine what's happening here with all the deaths and fire. I'm here 20 miles from it, and in fact I don't know what to do. I don't know if our leaders know what to do because this is a real disaster. Please tell the world to help...
They take their time and relax, though, in front of Au Bon Pain, where manager Douglas O. Parker has just set up coffee tables and chairs accomodating 200. While "people love to sit and sip coffee," he said, chocolate, ham and cheese, and spinach croissants are their best sellers. The only new item on Au Bon Pain's menu this spring is blueberry croissants, which they will introduce next week...