Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Castle Hotel in Taunton, a visiting chevalier of the Cercle Gastronomique de Belgique went home to Belgium and talked his fellow epicures into awarding the English hotel its Grand Prix for the year. He was eloquent in praise of the roast duckling, the apple tart, the port-touched Stilton. Castle Chef Charles Instep accepted the prize (a silver cup, 18 inches high) for himself and England with becoming modesty. "We can't always please 100% of our customers," he said. "I just try to please...
...city, giving the landlocked Austro-Hungarian empire an outlet to the sea. The Allies promised it to Italy in World War I as a reward for joining their side. Italy held Trieste until World War II; ethnically, 80% of the city itself is Italian. Since World War II, the port city and 280 square miles of surrounding countryside, coveted by both Italy and Yugoslavia, have been divided into one Western zone (U.S. and British) and one Yugoslav zone of occupation. Their population: roughly 286,000 Italians, 93,000 Slovenes...
...give De Gasperi the answer. He will not get it." He rejects a formula proposed by the Italians, for an "ethnic division" which would give Italy Trieste and the predominantly Italian string of coastal towns to the south. He insists on a corridor to Trieste and use of the port. But Tito needs more economic and military aid. Even the Yugoslavs concede that Trieste itself is and should remain an Italian city. Cooler-headed Italians, in turn, recognize that Trieste depends on Yugoslav and Austrian trade. Beneath the intransigent talk on both sides, then, are ingredients of a settlement...
Charles Thollet, a hardware dealer of Port-Lyautey, French Morocco, knows only a little English, but that did not bother him when he planned a trip through the U.S. He only looked up some addresses, and sent off a few letters beginning "Estimata Sinjoro." Last week the "Dear Sirs" of the U.S. were entertaining him and his wife royally. The language they used: Esperanto...
There are still some big yachts. Last week several of them, led by the 161-ft. schooner Goodwill, were making port in Honolulu at the end of a 2,225-mile race from San Pedro, Calif.* Likewise, there are still some big, venerable and fairly standoffish yacht clubs, where the dues run to several hundred dollars a year, where it takes a crew of barmen to mix the drinks, and an orchestra plays, Meyer Davis-style, for the evening's dancing. But there are hundreds of other yacht clubs nowadays which offer the essentials-a place to moor...