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Secular Support. Though it will be weeks before meaningful sales figures are in, U.S. Catholics seem as inclined toward fishless Fridays as their Canadian neighbors. In Manhattan an Ancient Order of Hibernians group celebrated the new regimen over platters of roast beef at an East Side pub. Jesuit-run Boston College is adding meat to its Friday menu. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, fish got a secular show of support: the Harvard Food Services office decided to keep fish on Friday, reasoning that it is "as good...
...early 1900s. Still, most of them are not exactly skinny. Singing opera is extremely demanding physically; and generally, the heartier the singer, the heartier the singing. Some fans of Maria Callas contend that she sang much better 13 years ago, when she was a puffy 215 and ate whole roast chickens between acts, than she did after she slimmed down to a svelte...
Poor Richard's, Ogunquit, Me. In a 1780 tavern on the King's Highway, now a restaurant specializing in Yankee pot roast cooked in wine, baked lobster in wine sauce, breasts of capon and prime ribs of beef...
...latin's, Monterey, Calif. Grand dishes, such as bull's head complete with apple in the mouth and eyes intact, and roast imperial Russian wild boar. Boar served only on several days' notice, at $14.75. Also $20-a-plate servings of Chateaubriand, served only to parties of ten or more...
...Chinese checkers and Western chess were abolished. Lovers' trysting places in Peking's parks were declared off limits as unconducive to Mao reading. Under pressure from the Red Guards, the staff of the famed Chuan Chu Teh Restaurant changed the establishment's name to the Peking Roast Duck Restaurant, smashed the old sign and promised from now on to serve workers, soldiers and peasants "cheap and tasty" meals costing only half as much as the previous menus...