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...last time I ate Nyonya was at an outdoor food court in Kuala Lumpur. The dish was Chicken Kapitan, a coconut-laced curry redolent with tamarind, turmeric and shrimp paste. The waiter who delivered the bowl of curry was Malay. With me were TIME's Malaysia stringer, an ethnic Indian, and our taxi driver, a Chinese. Both snuck spoonfuls of gravy from my dish. I didn't mind. There was more than enough for all of us to share...
...code, the U.S. was "Country," the atomic bomb project was "Enormoz," and Franklin Roosevelt was "Kapitan." That's according to newly released CIA documents that showthe KGBhad a sense of history as well as a rather heavy-handed sense of humor. The U.S. intelligence agency released four dozen intercepted messages from the pre-Cold War days during the mid-1940's, when the Soviets were scrambling to develop their own atom bomb. "Much to my astonishment, one finds evidence of KGB humor," said CIA Director John Deutch. "Washington is referred to as Carthage, San Francisco is Babylon and New York...
...Tomis Kapitan...
...Captain Connor (Brian Keith). Between drinks, the captain interprets the unrest as a diversionary tactic. There must be something deeper underfoot, he decides -something like a tunnel. From that moment, The McKenzie Break becomes a lethal contest of Irish hound and German hares led by the glittering Übermensch, Kapitan Schluetter (Helmut Griem...
...retaining a pleasing European touch. Designed by former Chevrolet Stylist Clare MacKichan, who was dispatched to Germany for the job, the cars use already developed engines and identical body shells, are made by Germany's most automated auto plants. Opel was thus able to price its $2,270 Kapitan, its $3,050 Admiral and its $4,400 Diplomat as much as $300 to $1,700 below Mercedes models of roughly similar size, interior appointments, power and styling sophistication...