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...German wit L. A. Feuerbach observed, is what he eats. The culinary tastes of Presidents may bear out that maxim. Under Dwight Eisenhower, a state dinner, served with military precision, might feature such Army-wife specialties as Mamie's cherished Chicken Jewel Salad Ring, a cloying confection that included cranberries, celery and almonds, epoxied with gelatin. During the Kennedy Administration, the sumptuary menus seemed intended to rate a star or two from Michelin. Lyndon Johnson introduced Texas ranch-house-chili cuisine to the White House...
...this will happen because the nation's fate is securely in the hands of his heroes, the American people. "... These people can cope," he says unequivocally. Indeed, the fact that Americans have coped so well in what even Wallenberg admits are troubled times "may be the most valued jewel in the diadem of American success...
...have the wrong location. For the moment at least, the French connection has been largely broken, along with the heroin-processing laboratories on the Cote d'Azur and the Corsican drug rings that ran them. The new center for the European heroin trade is, of all places, the jewel-box city of Amsterdam...
...teacup with her pinky extended. The real tension arises when she rejects his stiff pleas for conformity and rebels against the double-standard demands of his social circles. Daisy goes out with strange men late into the night; she burns and glows in the dark like a luminescent jewel until she is consumed by Europe...
...have brought new life to a neglected subgenre: the caper novel. In The Spy in the Ointment (1966), a typographical error on an FBI list caused a pacifist to become mixed up with bomb-throwing subversives. In The Hot Rock (1970), a raffish foursome engineered several fiendishly clever jewel thefts in search of a rare emerald that turned out never to be where it was supposed to be. In Bank Shot (1972), a suburban bank temporarily operating out of a mobile home was robbed by a gang that simply hauled it away...