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Thank you for the hilarious Dec. 30 article, "Summit Simmer." May I suggest that Art Buchwald of the Herald Tribune take over as White House Press Secretary? At least he has a sense of humor, something totally lacking in Ike's little bulldog...
...onetime New York Timesman) Hagerty took it as a personal affront, bawled out the Herald Tribune by telephone, barred Columnist Buchwald from all future briefings. Said he later: "I was so mad I could cry. The President read it and laughed. This made me madder. The President said: 'Simmer down, Jim, simmer down.' " Instead, the upsimmering Hagerty swore that he would "get even with the Trib." After calling his press conference half an hour early, he primly informed newsmen-among them Buchwald-that the Buchwald column "at no time" resembled "what I ever said at a public briefing...
This seemed to be a perfectly logical explanation and as the Princetonian was happy to accept this, the miniature crisis seemed to have come to a halt. But the teacup had not stopped boiling, it had just slowed to a simmer for a day. On Wednesday, the President of the Lampoon gave his answer to Princeton in particularly blunt terms...
Moral Sanction. Not until the next afternoon did the dark threat of war with the Russian volunteers simmer down. Russia's Bulganin wrote notes to Britain's Eden and France's Mollet in more placid phrases. Nasser's Egypt announced that it had no imminent need of Soviet volunteers after all. The U.N. police force moved into the Suez in sky-blue helmet liners, men out of faraway places clothed in the weighty moral sanction of the U.N. General Assembly (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...serving take two dressed quail, simmer in one pint of chicken broth for 15 minutes; remove birds from broth and pluck meat from bones, returning the meat (finely chopped) to broth until cooked; thicken with one tablespoon of flour, season to taste and serve on toast points or with hominy grits. (The President prefers grits...