Word: thermidors
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Potential Fare. Thanks to Franey, the menu at any orange-topped Howard Johnson restaurant around the U.S. now includes Welsh rabbit, chicken stroganoff, veal scallopini, lamb curry and seafood thermidor. "We're upgrading gradually," says Franey. "You have to keep the average American in mind. But maybe some day we're going to serve caviar at Howard Johnson...
...garden and chatted. Said Joe Kennedy: "I'd rather talk than walk." Struck for 2½ days by 700 waiters, cooks, bellhops and elevator operators, Manhattan's gilded Waldorf-Astoria bravely carried on. Accountants clapped j together tuna-fish sandwiches as substitutes for halibut thermidor. At a $25-a-plate dinner attended by Vice President Lyndon Johnson, the lobster bisque was omitted for fear that clerks and junior executives would slop it all over the 1,200 guests. Even Bossman Conrad (Be My Guest) Hilton, 74. saw emergency service. During a party on the 18th-floor Starlight Roof...
...babies, and observed that her daughter Caroline detested flashbulbs. The president of the Paris Municipal Council presented her with a tiny wristwatch, was rewarded with a smile. Then there was a quick trip to flower-decked Malmaison, the Empress Josephine's country retreat, and a gourmet lunch (lobster thermidor, mousse aux fraises des bois, and three wines) at La Celle St. Cloud, the long-ago hideaway of Mme. de Pompadour. And capping it all was the gala evening at the Palace of Versailles, with illuminated fountains and gardens, an 18th century ballet in the glittering Louis XV theater...
...wrote. "But somehow, at the White House, it was different." Everyone clucked about Jackie's two-piece dress, a chic understatement in beige ottoman silk, and her new chef, who had worked through the night to lay on a little buffet of pates, hams, turkeys, lobster thermidor, and Hungarian goulash. Before the dessert, Jackie stood up to welcome the women in words thai women understood...
...state visit to Brazil when a ham radio operator in Addis Ababa flashed the bad news. "Calling everybody, calling everybody! Ethiopia is in a critical state following a coup d'état." Glumly, the Emperor lunched in his Sāo Paulo hotel room on lobster thermidor, stared out the window and pondered the unkindest cut of all. The revolt had apparently been led by his own son and heir, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 44. By that night the Lion of Judah was back on his private DC-6B and bound for home...