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...boiled egg and warm milk. The business of his day starts at suppertime, when carefully chosen friends knock on the door of his cluttered apartment and escort him to dinner. Last week the Prince reached his 80th birthday, and all France rallied to wish him bon appétit. Some hundred of the nation's most famed restaurateurs and gourmets gathered to share with the master a simple dinner of chicken bouillon, lobster jellied in champagne, spitted ham and truffles, 80 varieties of choice cheeses, bombe glacee and cake, all washed down with simple white Muscadet...
...million for the U.S., $4,650,000 for the British) for telephone & telegraph service between West Berlin and West Germany, as they had during the 1948 Berlin blockade, and demanded daily instead of the routine monthly payments on all rail freight charges. West Berliners were delighted by a tit-for-tat British gesture: surrounding for seven days a Communist radio station in the British sector with barbed wire and a cordon of tam-o'-shan-tered Scottish troops, trapping inside 40 East Germans and 20 Russian soldiers...
...East-West trade should cease. At the same time, a diplomatic policy of tit for tat should be initiated: all the insulting restrictions which are applied to Western diplomats in Moscow should be applied to Russians in the West. The Russians will not think the worse of us for this treatment, nor be more likely to resort to war, since nothing can make them more hostile to us than they are at present...
...British-Iranian game of tit for tat was in full swing again. After the earnest, sober interlude of the Harriman mission, Teheran and London were once more trading threats and accusations, with each side hoping to break the other's will...
...high winds, he has triumphantly recorded the moorland cry of the greenshank and the "singing" of the seal on the spray-splashed rocks off the Pembrokeshire coast. He is postponing his retirement at least until he can get on wax the elusive stone curlew and the long-tailed tit...