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Every clod has its silver lining, and for each insultee there are thousands who would not light a stove without consulting the proprietor. Jackie Onassis is a devoted customer, as are Johnny Carson, Nelson Rockefeller, Danny Kaye and the Kennedys. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel buys supplies from the store; so does Pan American Airways...
...more drastic solution was observed recently in a New Salem, Mass., diner where a regular breakfaster, having ordered his cereal and coffee, surveyed the counter and found it sugarless. Beckoning the proprietor, he asked genially what had become of the sweetening. After reaching behind the counter, the owner approached the customer, spoon in hand and sugar bowl protectively clutched to his bosom. "How many spoonfuls you want on your Wheaties?" came the grim question. "How many in the coffee...
...Information Minister Nha, the editors announced that they would henceforth ignore government restrictions. When three Saigon newspapers published the full text of the Catholic priests' charges against Thieu and his family, about 60 Catholics, Buddhists and journalists marched to prevent police from entering the printing plants. One newspaper proprietor burned 10,000 copies of an edition the police had ordered confiscated while a crowd shouted, "Down with dictatorship and corruption!" Such public displays would have been unthinkable only a few months...
...with elaborate racing stripes and mag wheels. The place gives a visitor the feeling that two dozen Hell's Angels are about to wheel in looking for some feral fun. When anonymous death threats were made against Jackson before last year's World Series, he hired beefy Proprietor Tony Del Rio as his temporary bodyguard...
...Tour d'Argent, a 515-page book about the restaurant to be published next month, Claude Terrail, its proprietor, makes clear that it is not quite the place for a Texas oilman in search of a sirloin and fries. Even Lyndon Johnson, then Vice President, was accorded a rather undistinguished table. Undaunted, he asked, "Don't you serve the same food at all the tables?" The food is indeed succulent anywhere on the premises, especially La Tour's famous leg of lamb Claude Terrail and pressed ducks-of which the restaurant has served 468,800 since proprietors...