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...profession of chef is being given its true value," said Paul Bocuse, 49, proprietor and chef of his eponymous three-star restaurant near Lyon. This week Bocuse will be made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by President Giscard d'Estaing. In return, Bocuse, together with three other three-star chefs, will cook a five-course luncheon for Giscard to demonstrate the glories of the new French cuisine that emphasizes improvisation with the day's freshest food. The chefs will go to market that same morning to choose the food and then they will take over...
...January 27 Sweeney wrote an angry letter to Frank J. Weissbecker, director of Food Services, outlining and complaining about Holcombe's legion grievances against Harvard. Two days later, Holcombe was called in to the dining hall manager's office, where three supervisors and one member of the Personnel Office were waiting...
...When President Hoover begged the American Legion's 1932 convention not to insist on early payment of veterans' bonuses, what chant greeted his please...
Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922 to Russian parents (his father had spent 15 years in the U.S. before moving to Palestine during World War I to become a soldier in the Jewish Legion). At the age of 19, Yitzhak joined the elite, secret branch of the Jewish underground, the Palmach. Soon after, he met a high school girl named Leah Schlossberg, whom he married...
...finding a new way to assuage money worries, insomnia, angst, neuroticism and neglect of liver and lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer an ogre, is rapidly becoming as much a part...