Word: pheasants
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...entertained the Kennedys at a brilliant banquet that would have pleased Scheherazade. The setting was the brand-new Iranian chan cellery, a tasteful combination of modern architecture and ancient Persian mosaics, rugs and objets d'art. As they dined on caviar - freshly flown from the Caspian Sea - and pheasant à la périgourdme, the Kennedys and their hosts looked out on a rain-washed courtyard where Persian fountains played. And once more, the ladies were the radiant center of attraction - Jackie, in a strapless pink satin Dior gown, looked more like a Persian princess than the Empress Farah...
Adzhubei and his wife Rada broke off a South American tour to answer the President's invitation, got the full Kennedy treatment in Washington. They lunched with the Kennedys on pheasant and wild rice, were welcomed to the President's press conference, and were introduced to Caroline Kennedy, who had in tow her dog Pushinka, a gift from Premier Khrushchev. Adzhubei had a private talk with Kennedy that was described only as "wide-ranging," "candid" and "not uncordial"; Jackie Kennedy took Rada on a tour of the White House nursery. The Adzhubeis also took a meal with...
...House functions, ashtrays were scattered about. Glass bowls contained alcoholic (domestic champagne) and unspiked punches; to guide teetotalers the nonalcoholic drink was garnished with oranges, the darker-hued champagne version with strawberries. In the State Dining Room there was a mammoth buffet of chicken à la king, roast beef, pheasant, tongue, turkey and ham. Footman John Pye, a White House servant since the days of Woodrow Wilson, declared it the finest spread of his tenure. By 11:45 the presidential host (who learned of the Cuban debacle just before the party began) had taken his leave to spend long night...
Taken hunting in Kent by Prince Philip, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 12, knocked down a pheasant with the first blast from his .410 double-barreled shotgun. Before the morning's shooting was finished, father and son had bagged 20 birds. All this filled Philip with paternal pride, but the birds had scarcely been plucked when Britain's vigilant League Against Cruel Sports fired its own inevitable burst: "Here you have a child who is taught to love animals and birds on one hand and is then told, in the same circles, that it is a social...
...accepting personal greetings from friends, children and grandchildren, and shoveling through the blizzard of congratulations that fell upon the threshold of his London town house in Hyde Park Gate. At the family luncheon table, Sir Winston presided over a mighty repast of oysters, turtle soup, roast pheasant, champagne and all the trimmings, plus an 85-lb. birthday cake doused with his favorite brandy. Churchill's birthday moved New York Times Correspondent Sulzberger to recall how he recently remarked to Sir Winston in Morocco that men might soon zoom to other planets. "Oh, no!" cried Churchill. "Why would anyone wish...