Word: peacocke
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...worsted from Brooks, and the oxford-gray basket-weave polyester-worsted from Press. Then six ties, use your own judgment, keeping the suit in mind . . ." And so it goes. After taking down a veritable mail-order catalogue, the wife also throws in underwear, handkerchiefs and a belt -items her peacock forgot...
...legions of attendants. The menu for the main banquet was up to the occasion: quail eggs stuffed with caviar (the only Iranian dish on the menu); a mousse of crayfish tails in Nantua sauce; stuffed rack of roast lamb and, as a main course, a traditional medieval dish: roast peacock stuffed with foie gras. For dessert there was a ring of figs with raspberries in the center, champagne sherbet and mocha coffee. There was also a 33-kg. cake to mark Farah's 33rd birthday, which was last week...
...independent of their governments than PBS so far has been. If its bureaucratized and politicized management continues to bow meekly to pressure, as it did last week, PBS might as well give up its bold new logo and perhaps adopt something like a plucked version of the old NBC peacock. That is, a chicken...
...question is the duration of any wage-and price-control policy. Businessmen, while admitting the necessity of controls, are frankly afraid that they will become permanent. "I know of no country, other than one distraught by war, that ever started down this road and then came back," says Leslie Peacock, president of San Francisco's Crocker-Citizens National Bank. Nixon has proclaimed that any Phase II control mechanism will be only a "way-station" on the road back to free markets. If inflation substantially calms down, he may campaign for re-election on a promise to remove the controls...
...Happiness Surgery. Wagner averages 30 operations a week, one-third of them on men. The reason, he thinks, is that "we are enjoying a renaissance of the peacock look for men." Says another Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, Dr. Byron Hardin: "A lot of stigma used to be attached to plastic surgery for men; there was a tendency to associate it with entertainers and homosexuals. But it's not freaky any more-it's just part of good grooming. I call it happiness surgery...