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Five Pouilly-Fuissés. At the Restaurant Drouant in the Rue Gaillon, the academy members were taking longer than usual to make their annual selection. A waiter battled his way through the crowd, muttering: "My God, four ballots and five Pouilly-Fuissés and still these gentlemen have...
On a bleak, rainy, gale-swept afternoon last week, several thousand Highlanders gathered at the little village of Inveruglas on the west bank of Loch Lomond. Queen Elizabeth, in a fur-trimmed coat, stood in the drizzle to tell the crowd: "This mighty scheme [will send] new strength surging into...
"Doubt is an expensive commodity." The Wall Street Journal was talking about the stock market, specifically the investors who had hesitated to buy when stocks slipped to cut-rate prices last month after the Korean war began. By last week the surging bull market had knocked many of the stocks...
The lid blew off La Paz last week for the first time since the bloody 1946 revolution in which the capital's citizens hanged their dictator from a lamppost. This time the capital's schoolteachers touched off the explosion by demanding higher pay to offset the government'...
From a makeshift command post in the Manitoba legislature building last week, a composed, greying soldier in the red-tabbed battledress of a brigadier defended besieged Winnipeg against the city's worst flood in a century. His orders flowed by field telephone and radio to 50,000 men sweating...