Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although folk tales throughout the world bear an uncanny and unexplained family resemblance, many of these stories have an outlandish ingenuity that marks them as uniquely Russian. Take, for example, the tale of the peasant Bukhtan, whose habitation was "a stove built on pillars in the middle of a field. He lay on the stove up to his elbows in cockroach milk." Since it is axiomatic in folk tales that the more wretched a peasant, the better his chances of making good, Bukhtan naturally ends up marrying the Czar's daughter...
...from royal protocol. On the Bronington, however, Charles may long to be a landlubber again. Explains Kelly Green, 23, a cook on the ship: "She is old and rocks a lot. In a gale I put a pot of stew on and tie it to the top of the stove. Nobody eats it anyway. Everybody gets seasick...
...next ride was a converted school bus, complete with pot-bellied stove and deluxe double - bed spread out in back. The ceiling was covered with colored patches of rugs. At one point the driver reach up and pulled one of the patches down to reveal a stash, then passed some joints around. I felt good in the bus; but I didn't smoke any. I was drowsy and it reminded me of home, and home seemed further away than when I started out. Even though the eucalyptus smelled so good, I would be home soon...
There was never a question of too many chefs spoiling the mousseline. True, Bocuse had to send a launch to Sardinia for fresh parsley, and all the chefs had to get used to the ship's electric stove. Nonetheless, though accustomed to serving small gatherings (80 at most) from a nearby kitchen, the superstars quickly adjusted to mass-feeding with unfamiliar equipment from labyrinthine kitchens as far as seven decks below. The only near disaster came at lunch the first day, when the company hurled itself upon the buffet tables like famished refugees. (Thereafter, lunch was served at guests...
...determined to keep Henry Kissinger as his Secretary of State and Kissinger is determined to stay, a hazardous route stretches to the end of Ford's term. Should Kissinger leave, somewhere along the way, whom might Ford pick to replace him? The speculation is in the best hot-stove-league tradition...