Word: toasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, this is the prettiest railroad country in the world," says Woody Vinson, who by this time certainly should know. He is gazing over a plate of Traditional Trainman's French Toast, past the plastic yellow rose, out the window of the dining car of the California Zephyr as it leaves Salt Lake City behind and makes for the mountains. The tables are full of people ignoring their breakfast, a comment less on the quality of the food than on the galactic beauty of the scene outside. Vinson and his wife Lois are on their way home to Memphis...
...those who recall the white-linen days of yore, the dining car is a disappointment. The tables are covered with blue plastic, the meals served on beige plastic dishes. But the food is hearty, and some standards survive, like the thick French toast and trout served in the mountains. Anyone who suffered the vending-machine fare of the 1970s appreciates the fact that the food is prepared -- or at least thawed -- on board, with good sirloin steaks grilled to order in the evenings...
Raising his glass to propose a toast, U.S. Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci observed that the Swiss city of Bern was an appropriate setting for the round of talks about to get under way because it was the "capital of the capital of peace." The observation was tinged with some irony, since Carlucci and his partner in discussion, General Dmitri Yazov, the Soviet Defense Minister, are responsible for the world's two most powerful military machines. Yet at the end of their three-day meeting last week, the first full working meeting ever between U.S. and Soviet defense chiefs, both...
...publishers responded to such attacks with a code, guaranteeing in effect that all comics would henceforth be as mild as milk toast. But just as the publishers promised sweetness and light, the '60s began to demand "relevance." What had Superman's crime fighting ever done about civil rights or Viet Nam? Youthful eyes turned to the work of "underground" comic artists like R. Crumb, whose heroes used and acted out words that would have shocked the irremediably respectable man of steel. Even in the swinging '60s, Superman's idea of a really strong expletive was "Great Scott...
...Novak. Says George Christian, press secretary in Lyndon Johnson's White House: "One of Strauss's many strengths is that although he's a good Democrat, he can also be bipartisan when the situation requires it." Perhaps Speaker Wright had something like that in mind when he offered this toast to Strauss at a recent private dinner: "It's an honor to have with us a close friend of the next President of the United States -- whoever the hell...