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...comforts of home, including air conditioning, sparkling modern kitchens, refrigerators, telephones and closed-circuit TV. When the inhabitants get bored with indoor life, they put on their skindiving apparatus and step through the "front door": a hole in the floor. Once outside, they can range freely, gathering tasty seafood to be cooked in the dream kitchens, never going near the surface. Every day during the month-long test, a doctor swam down from the mother ship Calypso, which hovered overhead, and checked the villagers' health. Cousteau himself stayed topside on the Calypso most of the time...
...clearly how this might be done, but there is nothing unscientific about his idea that men can live under water for considerable periods. He thinks that in the not too distant future, the sea bottom will be inhabited, perhaps by underwater farmers growing algae and undersea cattlemen herding seafood...
More likely they will traipse off to the Neptune, a tiny Soho seafood house operated without frills by Sam Abrahams, who formerly peddled jellied eels from an East End pushcart. The first time a bunch of budget Baedekers swarmed into his place, Sam "couldn't understand where all the Americans came from." Today, however, Sam is well aware that nearly all of his Stateside customers brandish a $1.95 paperback tome titled Europe...
...dining rooms a battery of Hilton tasters has effected a saving with the discovery-so they say-that Manhattans are much better when made with the cheapest bourbon and that Icelandic lobster is better and cheaper than jumbo shrimp in many seafood dishes. Each of the five restaurants in the New York Hilton has a culinary theme-Spanish, French, Old New Orleans, etc.-but all the food is cooked in one mammoth kitchen. Hilton also saves money by purchasing its turkeys only once a year and freezing them, by having its French fries blanched with oil before they leave Idaho...
...restaurant in Formosa follows the practice of many a good American seafood house: the patron is invited to select his dinner before it is cooked. There are cages of boxers and dachshunds and mongrel pups to choose from, but chow is considered the best...