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...White House invited a spirited, varied list of 140 guests, ranging from Dean Acheson to Gene Autry, George Meany to Thomas Dewey. By candlelight in the evergreen-decked state dining room, they feasted on roast duckling, Bibb lettuce salad, lobster imperial and "Yule log" dessert (chocolate cake coated with mocha butter)-the last culinary triumph of White House Chef René Verdon, a Kennedy find who heatedly gave notice a week before the party that he was leaving...
...will be easy to run down the menu and pick poached filet of sole, champagne sauce-"perhaps one gram for the flour in the sauce; highly recommended"-or filet mignon, béarnaise sauce-"one gram for the eggs; no danger here." But as for a chocolate malted and mocha layer cake, "150 grams!-jamais de la vie!" The "grisly alternative" of a reducing diet is listed in terms of defatted French dressing, vegetable-burger ("a dry, scratchy mass of grated carrots, soybeans, daisy petals, etc."), skim milk and dry toast...
Married. Charles Haskell Revson, 57, chairman and chief stockholder of RevIon, Inc., purveyor of cosmetics with those wild, wild names (Pinkissimo, Pango Peach, Mocha Pocha); and Lynn Sheresky, 32, Manhattan divorcee; he for the third time; in Windsor, Conn...
...people who sit in the urban coffeehouses sipping mocha Java at 60? a cup are mainly of college age. They take folk singing very seriously. No matter how bad a performing singer may be, the least amount of cross talk will provoke an angry shhhh...
...million. He raised money by adding charges to customs duties and levying internal tariffs on trucks and caravans. In times past, fertile Yemen, known as Arabia Felix, was the granary of Arabia, but it now must buy wheat and butter abroad. Exports of Yemen's top-grade Mocha coffee dropped from 25,000 tons to 12,000, and last year to 5,000 tons. Starved and graft-ridden, Yemen's 4,500,000 people began exporting themselves; some 500,000 emigrated. The religious as well as temporal leader, Imam Ahmad sternly forbade movies, stringed instruments and alcohol-anyone...