Word: lelong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...starters, Lelong Drive, leading up to the city's Museum of Art, was painted a kind of Nile blue. The Fairmont Hotel opened a tent restaurant outside the museum with such specialties as Sphinxburger, Queen Nefertiti's Salad and Ramses' Gumbo. Bourbon Street Exotic Dancer Chris Owens, in a new Egyptian costume complete with vulture collar and emblems of the god Ra, is gyrating through a routine entitled "Pharaoh's Favorite Toy." The New Leviathan Oriental Fox Trot Orchestra has released an Old King Tut album, and Tut T shirts are also catching on. For those...
Nonetheless, even Giscard's supporters admit that the government has been maladroit in handling the present strike crisis. During early negotiations with the postal workers, Pierre Lelong, Secretary of State for the Postal Service, called the task of sorting mail "an idiot's job." The unions are now insisting that negotiations be carried on by Premier Jacques Chirac, on the ground that Lelong is incompetent. After last week's police attack on the picketers, it appears that both sides were occupying entrenched positions...