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...Amour has also written a dozen volumes about the Chantrys and the Talons, two other hard-riding families linked to the Sacketts by marriage. The latest L'Amour western omelet is highly seasoned and full of natural ingredients: the proud, individualistic Sackett brothers, Tell, Orrin and Tyrel, drive a herd from Colorado to Canada, answering an urgent call for help from Cousin Logan. On the winding trail they deal with Indians (mostly good), women (aggressively virtuous), rustlers (as mean as copperheads), plus a menagerie of grizzlies, wolves, giant mosquitoes and the customary herd of bison. In addition, there...
...promptly on three of Khomeini's four conditions. Last Nov. 14, Carter issued an Executive order that froze more than $8 billion in Iranian assets held by U.S. banks. To unfreeze them now, explained the legal counsel for a major New York bank, would be "like putting an omelet back into the egg." Various corporations and individuals have liens against those assets to cover unpaid Iranian debts, and U.S. banks have "offset" a total of about $1.5 billion to cover their outstanding loans to Iran. Said David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank: "If the Iranians think they...
...quickly moving in to focus attention on one aspect of his operations, then moving on to the next. A magnet for minutiae, he once dropped in on one of his hotels unannounced and wrote a lengthy memo to the manager on the impropriety of serving mashed potatoes with an omelet; according to Carlson, the accompaniment should have been French fries...
...sandals, curled up on several Air France blankets and slept for 2½ hours," reported van Voorst. "His personal security guard, suffering from a toothache and numb from aspirins, sat at the bottom of the steps. At sunrise, somewhere over Turkey, the Ayatullah said prayers, then was served an omelet for breakfast. When the captain announced that the plane had flown into Iranian airspace and would land in Tehran in half an hour, the Ayatullah craned his neck to look down on the magnificent spectacle of the snow-covered Zagros Mountains. 'The Ayatullah,' murmured one of his senior aides, 'is back...
...problem bride-to-be in Agafya (Cara Duff-MacCormick). Agafya is a mer chant's daughter and a bit of a ninny. The three suitors Fiokla lines up are chauvinist piglets. Ivan Pavlovich Poach'tegg (Jon Cranney) is a blustery, pompous bureaucrat. Poach'tegg (sometimes translated Omelet) is only after Agafya's property, a two-story brick house, the walls of which he thumps to test their soundness. Zhevakin (Randall Duk Kim) is a diminutive ex-naval officer who dreams of duplicating the girls of Sicily with their "rosebud mouths" and cushiony flesh. Then there...