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Last week a liner glided down the pistachio-colored Saigon River bound for France with more than 1,000 Eurasians on board. Among them: toothless Louis Loupy and his 14 Eurasian children, the biggest French family in Viet Nam. Many aged parents of adult metis went along with their children, mumbling prayers as they departed the land of their birth. Almost none of the passengers had ever been to Europe before; many of them spoke only Vietnamese...
Five minutes after Ike arrived at Camp David from Gettysburg 25 miles away, the first of three big helicopters bearing National Security Council members rattled crankily overhead. Yawing in the gusty grey air over the pistachio-green buildings in the Maryland woods, it plumped down on the muddy baseball field. John Foster
Stewed Fruit. Irked by this Pakhtoon-foolery, Pakistan last week effectively closed the historic Khyber Pass, through which passes 80% of Afghanistan's external trade, including shipments to the U.S. of pistachio nuts, wool, and karakul fur (which becomes "Persian lamb" on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue). At the pass, Pakistani customs stopped grape, peach and pomegranate-laden trucks and told them to await clearance from Karachi-which, they blandly confided, would "take some time." While the truckers fretted, the fruit rotted...
...popularity race, sponsored by the Adams House Food Committee, coffee has the best chance of snatching a last minute victory. Pistachio, frozen pudding and peppermint stick are far in the rear...
...bizarre, like "Dinner for One," an aged spinster's banquet for suitors dead and gone, most of these skits have considerable wit and imagination. Though the parody of "Picnic" is rather distasteful, De Wolfe takes a delightful poke at "My Cousin Rachel." Miss Gingold, however, as the dancer, "La Pistachio," provides the most entertaining moments of the revue. Garbed in an uproarious butterfly costume, the lusty old harridan is hilarious as the vamp of Paris...