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...strawberries for the dessert. Two hundred extra butlers were recruited to help serve a feast that began with suprême of seafood Neptune (crabmeat, tiny shrimps and scallops in sauce) served with hearts of palm and proceeded, with grateful disregard for the high price of meat, to roast sirloin of beef. Military orchestras and Les Brown's band provided music, and Bob Hope played host at the after-dinner show. A sample Hope line (greeted with traditional groans): "This is the first time I've played to a captive audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: P.O.W.S: Nixon Throws a Party | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...heat again soared to more than 125° (after hovering around 105°). That created fears of additional food spoilage, and the astronauts were warned to be on the lookout for bad odors when they began sampling Skylab's delicacies, which include such items as roast beef, lobster Newburg and Conrad's favorite butterscotch pudding. The space agency was also worried about the buildup of potentially lethal fumes from the decomposition of the heat-sensitive polyurethane foam used to insulate the interior walls of the ship. As an added precaution, the astronauts planned to don gas masks before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Skylab: The Troubled Mission | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

...Continental salad" is dominated by canned beets, canned grapefruit juice and a package of JellO. Other main courses recently served to the nation's highest-paid ($200,000 a year plus $50,000 expense money and free lodging and transportation) public servant: beef roulades, tamales, chicken egg rolls, roast pork and lasagna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mmm, Mmm Good! | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...menu is composed of a variety of mysterious sounding dishes mostly concocted of lamb, rice, syrian bread, eggplant and a wide variety of Middle Eastern spices--though the food isn't so spicy that it cannot be handled by the average Cambridge palette. A few Cambridge staples such as roast beef sandwiches are also on the menu, but the most popular dish and the house specialty is its lamb shishkebob...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: The Spice of Life | 3/23/1973 | See Source »

...rolls, before vanishing into the night. Another easy-to-spot glutton was the "gigantic man" who waddled into a Sir George's Smorgasbord House branch in the San Fernando Valley. He opened with 2 lbs. of salad, then reduced a chicken to rubble, inhaled two plates of roast beef, and washed it all down with milk. Then he thoughtfully wiped his plate clean with half a loaf of bread, paid his $2.50 check and left. (Inexplicably, he passed up dessert.) Jack LeFever, a vice president of Sir George, while denying that the huge customer was responsible, reports that most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Importance Of Being Greedy | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

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