Word: ren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family meals, which are usually prepared in a separate second-floor kitchen by Mrs. Zephyr Wright, the Johnson cook for 23 years. At $ 10,000 a year, he was hardly overpaid-but then how many chefs can boast that they slept in the White House for nearly five years? René's reign was not seriously threatened until last October, when Mrs. Mary Kaltman, an old family friend and a veteran director of foods at such epicurean establishments as Harlingen Air Force Base and Austin's Driskill Hotel-whose manager describes her as "real good on food...
Pickled okra. Spinach soufflé. Double divinity. Et, mon Dieu, ze bar-bé-cue! Escoffier would have turned in his grave. Last week White House Chef René Verdon, who is only mortal, turned in his apron instead...
...onetime chef aboard the French Line's Liberté and later at Manhattan's perfectionist Carlyle Hotel, French-born René was hired by John F. Kennedy in April 1961. He made a memorable White House debut with trout cooked in Chablis as the entrée at a luncheon for former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Kennedys' 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...
Tuesday, December 21 CHRISTMAS BALLET SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Nutcracker, a new ren dering in color, with dancers from the New York City Ballet, singers from the Stuttgart Opera and music from the Budapest Philharmonic. Eddie Albert narrates...
...NICARAGUA. In office since 1963, President René Schick, 56, works in the shadow of the Somoza brothers, Tachito and Luis, who control the country's military and much of its wealth. Schick and the Somozas are development-minded, however, and since 1961 their small (pop. 1,600,000) country's G.N.P. has increased by a phenomenal 40%, highest sustained growth in Central America. From the Alliance for Progress has come $30 million for such projects as construction of 350 miles of roads to stimulate dairy and beef production, reduce dependence on cotton. Foreign investors have teamed with...