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...editing by his top lieutenant, Steve Schneider. So, FBI men sourly note, a surrender may be months off, even if Koresh keeps his word -- and he has reneged on three previous promises to give up. "No one at our place is holding his breath," says FBI special agent Dick Swensen. Instead the FBI is continuing its psychological warfare. At all hours, agents blast harrowing noises out of loudspeakers -- the squeals of rabbits being slaughtered, the whine of a dentist's drill, the thunder of locomotives -- presumably in the hope that the Davidians might yield just to get some peace...
Solely a take-out enterprise--but still popularamong our reviewers--is Swensen's, on Brattle St.Swenson's doubles as a David's Cookies, and thesmell of freshly baked cookies permeates the room.With no seats, Swensen's has little ambience--thecrowded store is covered with loud wallpaper andthe floor space is meager. Its prices are the sameas Baskin Robbins'--$1.43 for a single scoop,$2.38 for a double...
...Swensen's, we sampled Chocolate, Vanilla andCaramel Turtle Fudge. The ice cream was some ofthe thickest around, and the vanilla was suitablysubtle. The chocolate received mixed reviews--manyfelt it tasted too much like a fudgesicle. Andwhile the Caramel Turtle Fudge was a surprise hitwith some reviewers, others said it had a"supermarket" taste
...hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California in the 1940s as a two-man operation, with Brothers-in-Law Irv Robbins and Burt Baskin scooping furiously. Another pioneer scooper is Earl Swensen, 69, who still owns his original San Francisco ice-cream parlor. Ten years ago, he sold the chain it gave birth to, however, and Swensen's, which has a shop in the Singapore airport, among many other places, recently opened its 300th franchise...
Then, on a trip to California a few years back, I discovered Swensen's. I still remember the first cone, a scoop of coconut and a scoop of Swiss chocolate with almonds and oranges. Later, Swensen's came to New York, but there are thrills you can't recapture...