Word: simmerings
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...oceans behind as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured their sunnier Commonwealth lands Down Under on a 40-day, 30,000-mile trip. It was the first time in nearly a decade that far-off Fiji had glimpsed its Queen. Elizabeth, looking cool as ever in the 105° simmer, responded by quaffing a bowl of kava, the muddy national beverage made of mashed roots. Then, before boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise on to New Zealand and Australia, she bowed to accept the traditional bouquet from one of her barefoot subjects, while others on a nearby British...
...Rombauer had sampled some of the pleasures of European cooking when her father served for several years as American consul in Bremen. In those turn-of-the-century days, directions for more exotic dishes were almost always in French, and began: "Make a white sauce, stir until ready." Or: "Simmer your leftover grouse for 36 hours and season to taste with duxelles." Irma Rombauer had no idea how to make a white sauce or what duxelles was-even her young lawyer husband, a longtime camper, could cook better than she could-but she set out to find...
After bringing Berlin to the boil, Russia last week let the city simmer a while. Soviet armored cars continued to shuttle through the Western sector; they drew only scowls from the crowds that had stoned them the week before. More than 300 East Berliners turned out for the funeral of Peter Fechter, the 18-year-old bricklayer who had been shot and left to die while trying to cross the Wall. Surest sign of relaxed tensions was the Western alliance's return to disarray. Despite President Kennedy's announcement that the Big Four had agreed "in principle...
...this point, Dave Dubinsky piped in with the suggestion that the two gladiators hold off and let their differences simmer until the next council meeting, scheduled for Washington in November. Thus the question of Helstein's nomination and Meany's veto was left riding. To newsmen next day Meany called reports of the argument "unscientific fiction . . . I don't think I ever called Reuther a liar. There are times that you say to a person that you think a statement they have made is not correct...
...Simmering. This year's Guide has blacked out six sets of two stars and 30 singles, while handing out almost as many new ones. There are four fewer restaurants in the top rank than in 1939, while * and ** restaurants have declined by 262. Explains Editor Pauchet: "Now everybody's in a hurry and the chef no longer has time to simmer a special dish...