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Harvard tiddlywinkers had a new experience Saturday. They won. Encouraged by the spirited music of the Harvard band and by cries of "Squidge, Harvard, squidge" and "Hold that Squab," from a partisan audience, the Gargoyle Undergraduate Tiddlywink Society (GUTS) defeated a novice Holy Cross team by the convincing score...
...exotic items as Bongo Bongo Soup, Javanese Sate and Bah-Mee, they are really American versions (or inventions) for American palates. "Take a Tahitian pudding made with arrowroot," says the Trader. "It's so tough you can throw it and use it as a handball. Or take a squab. In the average Chinese restaurant, that little fella comes out with his dead eyes staring you in the face. When the customer sees that naked head and the beak and the eyes, he wants no part of it. We chop the neck off it, barbecue...
Emphasizing that he was wearing his orivate citizen's hat, Lanphier sandwiched in his remarks while acting as master of ceremonies at a squab and wild rice dinner hosted by Convair at San Diego's Kona Kai Club. He was "glad," he noted, that a Titan had finally fired successfully, but the Atlas "could fly as far, hit as accurately and carry as much weight as the Titan. The only difference is that the Atlas is 1½ years ahead and is doing it now." Backing up the Strategic Air Command's plea for an airborne...
...Retreat. On Duck Island, his sanctuary out of reach of Washington on Lake Ontario, Foster Dulles moved with Janet into a different kind of glory, as a sort of woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known...
...stores to provide the best eating bird. The meat-type chicken is never referred to by the industry simply as a chicken. It is too much of an all-purpose bird. With its plump breast and slim shanks, at less than a pound, it can be sold as a squab. At a pound it is widely sold as a Rock Cornish game hen (the game hen is an amiable conceit, but it does have Plymouth Rock and Cornish strains among its ancestors). At 2 Ibs. it is a broiler; at 3 Ibs. it is a fryer. Above...