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Asst. Sec. to Mass. Governor's Comm. on Physical Fitness and Sports Sp. Comm. of Public Safety Employees...
Trillin has little in common with what his wife calls "grownup food writers" like Craig Claiborne. His spécialité might be termed basse cuisine. During the course of the book, he partakes of not one but two meals prepared by the legendary French chef Paul Bocuse and musters, at best, a joyless respect. The most positive thing he can say shows where his heart and stomach truly lie: "The truffle soup I ate as a first course could be honorably compared with the andouille gumbo turned out by the Jaycees of Laplace, Louisiana...
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...High General Staff School under General Manuel Diez Alegria, who was abruptly sacked as army chief of staff by Franco in June 1974. Reason: Diez had openly advocated that the government ease its repression of dissidents and he was also being likened to António de Spínola, the Portuguese general who played a key part in toppling the fascist dictatorship in Lisbon. Anonymous senders even began mailing Diez Alegria monocles-Spinola's hallmark...
Saraiva de Carvalho got his revenge last year when he helped oust Spínola from the presidency; at 38, he had become the youngest brigadier general in Portugal's history. Saraiva de Carvalho's true political ideas are something of a mystery. Most recently, he has associated himself with Portugal's ultraleftists and backed the creation of councils of workers and peasants that would express the will of the people and link them with the M.F.A. But his radicalism seems to be of an independent variety that would keep Portugal as distant from Moscow as from...