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ITALY'S FIRST SUPERMARKET is doing such a booming business that five new ones will be started in Rome this year. In June Romans will try another U.S. import-Italy's first drivein theater, with space for 560 cars, plus carhop snack service, automatic washing machines to do the laundry while family watches film...
...stated rule "not more than two tutors at any one table" merely serves to symbolize the fraternity that exists between the tutorial staff and house members. Here, more than in other houses, the tutors can regularly be found joining in at bridge, going out for a snack or drink with a few boys, joking around at a small party, or most often, just sitting and discussing some subject of general interest in the common room...
...Nixon was hit by the flu in September (TIME, Oct. 8), he refused to slow down, ordered his doctor to stoke him with antibiotics and vitamin pills and spray his throat with cortisone. Although he eats little on campaign tours (a light breakfast, a sandwich on the road, a snack before his evening speech, an attempt at dinner afterward), he actually gained two pounds on his first tour, has maintained an even weight of about 175 throughout the campaign...
...miss in the next revolution." Last week the revolution finally engulfed the Café de la Paix. After 86 years as a bastion of fashion (and fancy prices), the famed restaurant turned over one-eighth of its floor space to an American-style snack bar. Georges Marcovich, the café's Manager of External Relations, i.e., pressagent, explained: "We want to attract the salaried American vacationer who gets tired of five-course meals at high prices and wants some ham and eggs [price: 65?]. We have tried to democratize ourself and yet remain the perfect gentleman...
Pacific Nightmare. In the interest of democratized gentility, the café's Pacific Snack Room (overlooking the Place de l'Opéra) has been remodeled with glass walls and concealed lighting under supervision of the government, which classes the Café de la Paix as an artistic monument. Though most of the restaurant's specialities, e.g., la bouillabaisse de Marius, may be ordered at the counter, the management is making its big pitch for the tourist with short-order dishes that would have made Brillat-Savarin shudder. Items: Pacific Nightmare, a 95? pie filled with minced...