Word: souci
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work in his gleaming Lincoln Continental, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, 54, might glide by a straining bicyclist named Frank Tuerkheimer, 35, heading in the same direction. After putting in a morning's work in his spacious suite of Washington offices, Williams may lunch at the Sans Souci. Tuerkheimer brown-bags it in his cramped, spartan office, where he works as a Government lawyer...
...entire room was stilled as for, say, the presentation of the Nobel Prize. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger with NBC's Barbara Walters entered Washington's Sans Souci restaurant and, it turned out, walked right into Fellow Diner Art Buchwald's web. Motioning Kissinger over to his table, Humorist Buchwald handed Henry two reels of tape, saying, "Henry, here are the tapes." Amid the general laughter, Kissinger proved he was the stuff of which Metternichs are made. He grinned, said thank you, grew red, and changed the subject. But he did not accept the present...
...that day, Jeb Magruder dined on scampi and still looked a little selfconscious. But Paul is nursing this early Watergate casualty back to full participation. When Magruder called to see if he could still get a reservation, Paul said, "Of course, Mr. Magruder, you still belong to Sans Souci...
Indeed, Buchwald, who is more or less the presiding elder, claims that before long it will be just like Harvard. A father will have to enroll his son at birth to be accepted at Sans Souci...
...does break a Sans Souci rule now and then, however. The restaurant does not send meals out. But on a lonely Saturday afternoon a plaintive request from Henry Kissinger for his favorite luncheon steak was instantly honored. A tray bearing an elegant setting was handed to a security agent who had been dispatched for the pickup. The nation went...