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...Brussels and Louvain have a total of more than 500 Americans. Some 800 attend the Italian university at Bologna; the medical school at Rome has 175 more, many of whom make their presence known every Thanksgiving Day by playing in a football game that has become known as the Pasta Bowl. Mexico's Autonomous University of Guadalajara has the largest contingent; it numbers 1,300 gringos among its 4,000 students...
...consequences have not been lost on the patrons. One couple ended up with two waiters who forgot the appetizers until prodded. The bread was taken away too soon, the pasta and soup courses were omitted, and the second waiter offered extra deserts as reparations while forgetting the salad. Bottles of wine mysteriously appeared but no one offered to open them. And should the food arrive, it is likely to be cold...
...Club El Bianco on Chicago's Southwest Side. The three-to four-hour Super Bowl of Gluttony begins with appetizers (bean salad, salami and pepperoni) and a vast antipasto tray, continues with soup, tossed salad, stuffed peppers, ribs, eggplant parmigiana, veal scallopini, chicken cacciatore and piles of pasta. Dessert includes pastries, fruit and cookies, followed by a nut cart. If anyone complains that he is still hungry, Manager Peter Bianco Jr. has a secret weapon that few could stomach: a huge submarine sandwich topped by a "Champion" trophy. "Nobody's finished the whole thing yet," says Bianco...
...Cannes, Naples and Genoa. Student-fare travelers will enjoy the same accommodations (two, three or four to a cabin) as regular tourist-class passengers. They will also have the same amenities: swimming pool, 2 a.m. pizza parties and three other meals a day, with up to 450 kinds of pasta and plenty of free wine. The baggage allowance is nearly unlimited, and for $ 10 extra a student voyager can bring along a bicycle. The line is also adding rock bands, volleyball courts and lectures on what to do in Europe...
Paulucci, 54, an Italian immigrant's son, started in the food business helping his mother sell home-canned pasta in her living room. In 1947 he borrowed $2,500 and created Chun King, the purveyor of canned Chinese food. He sold out to tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds in 1966 for $63 million in cash, later started Jeno's Inc., a producer of frozen pizza and other foods. Last year Jeno's sales were $50 million. Customers apparently like the products better than Consumer Reports does; in the June issue it rated several types of Jeno...