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Clarence Hewes, head of Chicago's Bell Printing Co., whose presses churn out menus for 160 restaurants per day, has another theory. He blames the shortage of skilled, versatile chefs and the rising cost of food, which have forced restaurants everywhere to shorten their menus. "The less you offer, the more you have to say about it," says Hewes. Mon Petit, a restaurant in Chicago, devotes a three-line historical note to Chateaubriand beneath the dish named after the 19th century French statesman...
Said Humphrey: "As President, I would stop the bombing as an acceptable risk for peace because I believe it could lead to success in the negotiations and thereby shorten the war." The Vice President added: "In weighing that risk, and before taking action, I would place key importance on evidence-direct or indirect-by word or deed-of Communist willingness to restore the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Viet Nam. If the government of North Viet Nam were to show bad faith, I would reserve the right to resume the bombing...
...politics. There was Cardinal Cushing in his purple, his rumbly intonation evoking yet another memory of that earlier funeral. There was the President, who started his oresidency by giving condolences to the Kennedys and now, near the end of his power, came to mourn the man who had helped shorten the Johnsonian reign. There were the men pausing in their pursuit of succession: Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy. And there was Ralph Abernathy in his denims, William Fulbright, Averell Harriman, Barry Goldwater and so many others of the powerful and the prominent...
...proposed revision will also shorten the term of an associate professor from ten to five years. An associate professor presently serves ten years, but is guaranteed a professorship. Under the revised system there would be no such guarantee...
...attempt at metaphysical philosophy as it is at creating a superb science-fiction genre film. Consequently, 2001 is probable commercial poison. A sure-fire audience baffler guaranteed to empty any theatre of ten per cent of its audience, 2001 is even now being re-edited by Kubrick to shorten the 165 minute length by 15-odd minutes. 2001, as it is being shown in Boston now, is in a transitional stage, the theatre currently exhibiting a spliceridden rough-cut while awaiting new prints from the MGM labs...