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...small city we spent most time in during our three and a half weeks in China was Yenan, the old Red Army headquarters that's now a sort of historical shrine. We saw all the houses that Chairman Mao once lived in, and a labor hero who spoke to him three times, and a museum with the horse he used to ride, stuffed, like Trigger outside the Roy Rogers Restaurant. So we didn't see much of the countryside there, except a May 7 Cadre School--a farm where non-manual workers are supposed to spend six months from time...
However, in the only recent Ivy League precedent, Cornell's All-American running back Ed Marinaro competed in both the East-West Shrine Game and the Hula Bowl after the 1971 college season...
Restic said that as far as he knows, McInally, a native Californian, is partial to playing in the East-West Shrine Game held in San Francisco in December...
Died. Jean-Baptiste Troisgros, 77, premier chef and bon vivant; of a heart attack while feasting; in Villefranchesur-Mer. Troisgros's Restaurant des Frères Troisgros in Roanne, 240 miles southeast of Paris, became a shrine for gourmets who came to sample his food and prejudices. "From 35 to 45, women are old," Troisgros once said. "Then the devil takes over and they're beautiful, splendid, maternal, proud ... When I see them my mouth waters...
...astonishing gaffes in Jerusalem, Waldheim managed to erode a fair amount of the goodwill that his visit was supposed to generate. First, at Yad Vashem, the shrine in memory of the 6,000,000 Jews killed by the Nazis, Waldheim refused to cover his head with a yarmulke. That offended even non-Orthodox Jews. Later at a State dinner, he expressed pleasure at being "here in your capital"-although the U.N., far from recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, has demanded that it be internationalized. That raised the Arabs' hackles. Apologies followed, but neither side was likely...