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Where once the good, honest words "roast beef" sufficed, restaurateurs now add something like "blue-ribbon beef, thick and juicy." Diners know from experience that the steer got nowhere near a blue ribbon until it was served with a bottle of Pabst. From coast to coast, mashed potatoes appear on menus as "snowflake, creamery-whipped potatoes"; all vegetables, whether frozen, canned or left over from yesterday, are called "garden fresh." In Minneapolis, broiled rock lobster tails turn into "Queen of Hearts"; in Los Angeles, capon becomes "Tower of London"; in New York, string beans metamorphose into "Long Johns." The Hawaiian...
...Varadero International: Bring a bathing suit, because Varadero Beach, a 15-mile-long ribbon of white sand, is magnificent. Passengers on Eastern Flight 73 were berthed here. They were allowed to go swimming. They were also fed a free meal (appetizer, roast beef, rice, salad, dessert) while two Cuban bands played bossa nova and blues in the background...
Wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair ("for her daddy who is far, far away") Lucinda Desha Robb, 6 days old, left the Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md., to take up temporary residence in the White House. There, dressed in a long white gown that once belonged to her mother, wearing white crocheted booties and wrapped in a white blanket knitted by her paternal grandmother, Lucinda formally met the press for the first time. Grandfather Lyndon Johnson summed up the family's feelings about its latest addition: "Wonderful," he beamed...
...paper dolls, hair curlers, bedmaking, frilly underwear, dishwashing, piano lessons, pajama parties. As you grew older, things got more confusing: boys went on fishing trips with their fathers, you were taken shopping by your mother; boys covered themselves with grease, you learned to pick out the right color hair ribbon; boys stayed out late at night, you babysat; if you were sent to a sexually segregated school, you found that yours had fewer labs and playing fields than theirs; boys could go alone to movies, parties, dances, baseball games, restaurants, any public assemblage, you had to go in groups...
Long dormant plans to scuttle the Board were revived three years ago by three anti-union allies: the National Association of Manufacturers, the United States Chamber of Commerce, and Republican conservatives. In 1965 the NAM and the CC appointed a "blue ribbon" committee of management lawyers to research Labor Board "violations" of management rights. Their report launched broadside attacks against the procedure and integrity of the Labor Board, accusing it of blatant pro-unionism. "Legislative remedy," it said, "should be aimed at the chief offender--the NLRB itself...