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...treatment from Johnson. Afghanistan, after all, shares borders with Russia as well as Red China-not to mention Pakistan, India and Iran. There were bands, honor guards, a 19-gun salute, and a sit-down lunch for 140 in the Yellow Oval Room with green turtle soup, Florida red snapper and vanilla Jalalabad, named for the mountain resort that is the Afghans' Aspen. Afterward, during a half-hour talk with the President, Maiwandwal promised that Afghanistan would continue to press for democratic reforms. Johnson, in turn, agreed in principle to make some $40 million in economic aid available...
...Milton Inn, Cockeysville, Md. Former coach stop 60 miles from Washington, D.C. Owner Allilio Allori helped in his father's inn in Corsica, now pleases Washingtonians with his baked snapper livournaise, beef bourguignon, and Long Island duckling...
...easy to stomach. What Zephyr cooked for the President's family upstairs, he shrugged, was their affair. But after a few Kaltman-coordinated state banquets, the chef protested that he had a certain reputation to maintain. "You just don't ask a chef to serve red snapper with the skin still on it and beets with cream all over them," he declared with grim finality after last week's dinner for Pakistan's President Mohammed Ayub Khan. And so, at week's end, he quit the Great Society for café society, probably in Manhattan...
...away from nightclubs, theaters and restaurants. The thudding propaganda in the shows is one reason; the food and drink are another. A daiquiri runs $1.10, and the once-famed Cuban rum approaches the undrinkable. A sinewy little beef filet goes for $10 at the official exchange rate, and red snapper for $4.50 a plate. "It's Stalin-style economics carried to the ultimate," says one foreign visitor. "If you can strip the consumer economy of its buying power, then you can plow your resources into heavy machinery and infrastructure...
...flipped over and I was flying upside down. I flew about three-fourths of a mile that way. Then I reached down and pulled the seat handles, which flipped off the canopy. Then I groped until I found the ejection handles. I was still pulling them when the butt-snapper -that's a canvas that snaps taut and flips you clear-under my seat propelled me out into the air. Three swift jolts, and I was floating down in my parachute. Since I had nothing else to do, I went through the procedure I'd been taught over...