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...book, Guide to Dining Out in New York, Claiborne combines formal gastronomic training, superb taste and a delightfully caustic, even bitchy style. His dismay with Le Pavilion after the death of Henri Soule reached its apex when he spotted a red pencil in the maitre d's breast pocket. He lamented: "In the days of its glory Le Pavilion was the ultimate French restaurant . . . The waiters now seem to collide with less grace than they did in former days...
...care about cigarettes. Arbitrarily, we are divided into groups, and I size up my leader, Dr. Gordon F. Derner. He is wearing cowboy boots and a crew haircut, and he keeps telling us to share our feelings. One addict, Arthur, admits that he has half a pack in his pocket. "Put it on the table," the doctor suggests. Reluctantly, he does. As we watch, horrified, a sincere young mod named Lana picks up the packet and shreds the cigarettes. Shaken, we head for our bunks...
...Tondo slum. There he visited the home of Carlos Navarro, a construction worker who tries to support a wife and eight children on a dollar a day-when he can find work. Before he left Navarro's dirt-floored shack, the Pope slipped $500 into Navarro's pocket. For the astonished Navarro, the money meant at least two years' income. The Pope left the shack with tears in his eyes...
...families"-nearly all in West Pakistan-control 66% of Pakistan's industry and 80% of its banking and insurance assets. Only two of the enormously privileged 20 bothered to contribute to the disaster relief effort. Their ante: $100,000 each. Yahya has contributed $9,000 from his own pocket and $116 million from the treasury...
...each man with food, crisp new U.S. fatigues and M1, M-2 and M-16 rifles. General Bo Let Ya, who organized the Burmese army in the 1940s and now heads U Nu's "war council," claims that his commanders draw only $7 a month, plus 25? in "pocket money." Though the Thais have nominally friendly relations with the Ne Win government, Bangkok is fretful over signs of a Chinese-Burmese rapprochement, and many suspect that sympathetic Thai ministers simply wink at U Nu's activities...