Word: pur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treasure later won international renown with such dishes as chicken in champagne sauce and an incomparable quenelles de brochet. But one President's meat is another's poisson, and under L.B.J. the mâitre soon found himself tasting such Texas delicacies as Pedernales River chili and purée of garbanzos, a pease porridge cold that, in René's mournful words, is "already...
...council's Manhattan office, is presiding over no one-shot summer project. This winter, from Harvard to Stanford, council members churned out research on subjects ranging from rent laws to de facto school segregation. University of Colorado law students aim to start council-sponsored research for the pur pose of encouraging more lawyers to defend Spanish Americans. In Washington, D.C., students from 20 law schools attended a council-run conference on "law and indigency," urged a sharp expansion in lawyers' services for the poor...
...hale and hearty, there will be pushbutton meals. How about chicken liver pâté, followed by salmon mousse, whipped potatoes and a vegetable purée with hollandaise sauce? For dessert: a zabaglione worthy of the finest chef. Seconds, anyone? sssss...
...Argentina. Inflation is ham stringing all Italian industry; Milan's stockmarket last week dropped to a four-year low, and Fiat, stung by anti-inflation government taxes on car pur chases and gasoline, looks for a sizable production drop this year. But Olivetti, whose global sales reached $360 million last year, has been especially hard...
...high winds and dirt. There was no place to sleep, let alone a place for the mechanics to work on our planes. Yet within a few hours, two huge geodesic domes were constructed that withstood all the elements as well as providing hangars for our planes as serviceable as pur own back at El Toro, thus proving that delicate, multimillion-dollar jets could operate out of primitive conditions like those in South Viet Nam, or anywhere else in the world...