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...pin-stripe halls of the Federal Reserve Building, appropriately located on Constitution Avenue and just a shadow's length from the Lincoln Memorial, the phones jangled incessantly last Wednesday evening. Aides to Chairman Arthur Burns listened, amazed and amused...
...edition of the dictionary, the first since 1965, dropped 3.500 obsolete titles, such as bowling-pin setters, but added 2.100 new ones. To comply with the equal employment opportunity law, cataloguers tortuously rewrote some old job titles. A bat boy became a bat handler, a shoeshine boy a shoe shiner, and a draftsman a drafter. But the title of job No. 159.647-022, someone who "parades across stage to provide background for a chorus line," remained unchanged. Even bureaucrats could not swallow "show person...
...lighter, went down like a felled tree, his head striking the hardwood court with a thud. There he lay, unconscious, bleeding from the nose, mouth and ears. Says Referee Rakel: "The whole crowd came to a hush-you could almost hear a pin drop after they saw that man lying there. I hope I never have to witness such a scene again...
Jacques Pépin, 42, peripatetic teacher, author and cuisinier who was once the personal chef of Charles de Gaulle: "I recommend three good knives: two for slicing, one for chopping. A few basic strong pots. They don't have to be copper. But remember aluminum discolors some foods and stainless develops hot spots. Get good utensils-they will last forever, and you can give them to your children. Also try to avoid snobbism. Cooking is not for showing off to the neighbors...
...idea how to make a basic cream sauce." Therefore, he recommends that every cook have a step-by-step volume like Irma Rombauer and Marion Becker's Joy of Cooking (Bobbs-Merrill; $10.95 hardcover; New American Library; $4.95 paper) or, for the more advanced practitioner, Jacques Pépin's La Technique (Quadrangle; $25). He would add not only recipe books, but also several volumes that concern the philosophy and history of food. Lang's choices...