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...doesn't know how to build action to a climax, either. Before the grand banquet, he offers several episodes as hors d'oeuvres. But it's like serving nine varieties of salami, then bringing on roast duck. By that time you've lost your appetite for animal flesh...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

When a soldier and a girl arrived it looked like there might be breakfast for the group and there'd be a little happening. But no. No frenzy, no paint-throwing, no cannibal behaviour. The six just grooved on grapes, strawberries and roast chicken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Frolic on Grass At Sunrise Happening | 8/1/1967 | See Source »

Tough Grandfather. Before they broke for a luncheon of shrimp cocktail, roast beef and rice pilaf, they joshed about whether to eat at all. Kosygin said he was a tough grandfather. Having sipped coffee and iced tea during the morning meeting, he could go the rest of the day without food. Johnson prevailed, and lunch was served on a cloth-covered raw-wood table hastily hammered together by the White House kitchen staff, which had come up from Washington along with the food. During the meal, which was attended by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State Dean Rusk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Summit in Smalltown | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...funniest episodes, Art Carney demonstrates the simplest way to get away from a wife (Lucille Ball) for an evening with a mistress. He criticizes her cooking ("Pot roast? It tasted more like the pot than the roast!"), waits for her counterattack, then, acting wounded, stomps into the night on the town. In another, Joey Bishop is discovered in flagrante delicto by his outraged mate. "What bed? What girl?" he replies. While his wife shrieks, he calmly cleans up the room, whisks the girl out, then settles down to read in the living room. Faced with his bland denials, the wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Satyr Satire | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...process that cooks a 10-lb. roast beef in just over 60 minutes is still in its infant stages, and Litton is currently producing its ovens only for restaurants. But the company is experimenting with ovens for the Military and is working up a prototype for TWA to facilitate airborne cooking. No company yet produces food specifically for the microwave market, and this is where Stouffer fits into Litton's plan. As one Litton executive explains it: "What did RCA do to enlarge the market for color TV sets? It began a vigorous campaign to produce color TV shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Out at the Ballpark | 4/21/1967 | See Source »

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