Word: salmone
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...night of festive gaiety. A sumptuously ornamented "New Year's tree" towered 50 ft. high in the vaulted St. George's Hall. Ambassadors, bishops, marshals in all their medals and all the top Soviet bosses thronged the long banquet tables and devoured mounds of caviar and salmon as Bolshoi sopranos sang and a symphony orchestra played. At the stroke of midnight,* Nikita Khrushchev raised his glass of Caucasian wine and shouted: "Happy New Year, comrades!" In great good spirits, he tossed out more toasts-"The heroic working class!" "The collective peasantry!" "The Soviet intelligentsia!" "The all-conquering ideas...
Every year, State Department officials, foreign services officials, congressmen, columnists, and scholars, like salmon swimming upstream, come together to shout about the inadequacy of entertainment allowances for U.S. diplomats. "The total annual budget for 100 embassies and 350 consulates is $850,000"; it is an old and familiar grievance...
When James Reston describes this situation in the New York Times, no one is surprised. The perennial salmon, many of whom have themselves had to work with incompetent superiors and inefficient staffs, know that their yelling has never convinced the men who must appropriate their money...
...problems that continually harass the Congress and the Administration, this has always been the most absurdly easy to solve. Supported by the new President-elect, and Senator Fulbright's plan to recommend the expenditure of at least another $1 million on entertainment allowances, this year's salmon may have a chance. Perhaps they will at last be able to reach their lakes before they are killed by the ignorance and stupidity of those who have never considered diplomacy anything but gentlemen in striped trousers feeding martinis to alluring foreign women...
...financial game and was generally credited with Alleghany's success or failure. But cautious Kirby made the final decisions-because he had the money. Since Young perpetually in motion, they usually conferred long distance by phone were never very close socially. Once Kirby invited Young to his salmon-fishing camp on the Gaspe Peninsula. Kirby complained that Young spent most of the weekend writing a poem on salmon fishing. But the poem signed by Young, now hangs framed on Kirby s office wall, together with a picture signed: "To AIlan, the steadfast who made it possible-with my undying...