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Relaying the boss's orders to the startled F.L.N. contingent across the table in Evian's Hotel du Pare, Joxe was polite but firm. "I have given our position," he said. "I have nothing to add. I suggest, in the present state of our talks, a suspension of our meetings and an interval for reflection...
Today there are at least 800,000 restaurant employees in the nation who collect tips amounting to about a billion dollars a year, and an additional million or so people in the other service trades whose tip income is beyond estimate. Restaurant owners continue to pare employees' pay to the bone; even at Manhattan's high-priced "21," waiters' salaries are about $42 a week, while perhaps two or three times that amount comes from tips...
...F.L.N. delegates plan to fly by helicopter each day across the lake to the French resort town of Evian-les-Bains, where, in the Hotel du Pare, at a table purposely made so wide that it will be physically impossible for delegates to shake hands with their opposite numbers, the Algerian rebels and the French will at last try to negotiate an end to the six-year-old Algerian...
...shrewd Texas blonde named Debbie Drake has fashioned a never-fail device to pare tallow off overweight Americans, using three proven methods: 1) exercise, 2) diet, and 3) matrimonial strife. The device is leggy, busty, 30-year-old Debbie Drake (38½-22½-36) herself. She does calisthenics. Loyal women viewers of 58 TV stations drag themselves out of bed early enough (7:30 a.m., E.D.T.) to puff along with Debbie as she does 15 minutes of sinuous stretches and stupefying deep breathing. While the women writhe, their husbands too are profiting by the sitting-up exercises (they...
...Louis XIV was the sun king, Louis XV had all he could do to reign. He was lazy, lecherous and indecisive. History has preserved his notoriety in such personal institutions as the Pare aux Cerfs (the deer park), a town house where, actually, he maintained a private brothel, and, as Author Nicolson puts it, "thereby did much damage to his repute, his constitution, and his power of application." However, one of Louis XV's nightly customs reveals far more about the so-called Age of Reason than his deer park...