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...Rabbit Stew. Seeking all the support he can muster, De Gaulle freed eleven imprisoned members of the old "French Algeria" Secret Army Organization (O.A.S.), including its old chief, General Raoul Salan, who was serving a life term. Taking advantage of De Gaulle's mood, one of his bitterest enemies returned to France. He was Georges Bidault, 68, a Fourth Republic Premier who fled the country in 1962 after being implicated in an O.A.S. plot to overthrow De Gaulle. Bidault, an extreme rightist, seemed unlikely to play a major role in the elections, but he indicated his willingness to stand...
...care center near St. Louis, for example, some 450 dogs and 250 cats slurp and chew Purina pet foods. Sniffing a trend toward "gourmet" dishes for discriminating dogs, Voila Foods for Pets, Inc., was founded this year to market burgundy beef in gravy and beef-kidney stew...
...Wisconsin, these Old World cultures never submerged in the great American melting pot as they have elsewhere. The state's culture is a pot of mulligan stew, with each ingredient clearly distinguishable: the Norwegians near Mount Horeb, the Swiss in New Glarus, the Icelanders on Washington Island. German can be heard on the streets of most cities and towns...
...What is taught is like the weakest stew that has had all the meat taken out and only has a few lumpy potatoes...
There was a lot of stew in the days just after the attack. General Westmoreland got on the Armed Forces Vietnam network to tell us all that this was the greatest defeat that the enemy had ever suffered. Ambassador Bunker got on to tell us that American forces and their gallant allies were having their greatest victory. They even had a brief dub-in from President Johnson in Washington telling us that this was a great defeat for the Viet Cong and a victory for America and South Vietnam. And that this was an act of last desperation...