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...around, a solitary Cliffie creeps down the steps of her off-campus house, into the kitchen she shares with 20 other girls. Making doubly sure that she is alone, she begins eating. She may start with apples and cheese, but she soon moves on to buttered toast, cookies, milk, mashed potatoes, hamburger, and cold dry cereal. She takes everything with her fingers, even if it is usually caten with a knife and fork. She pushes tiny bits of food into her mouth faster and faster, feeling herself grow full, fuller, and finally much, much too full, but still she goes...
While discussing the subject at one a.m., a sophomore was busily spreading butter between countless cookies and eating them quickly. She went on to salad with dressing, and finally to sweet rolls with butter. Across from her a junior was cooking mashed potatoes with gravy, and covering toast with parsely and butter. "I wish you wouldn't talk about it while I'm eating compulsively," the junior laughed...
Since there are no weighty differences between the U.S. and Ethiopia, the glittering round of gold-plate lunches, dinners and receptions thrown by official Washington were full of sentiment. Said President Kennedy in a dinner toast: "There is really no comparable figure in the world who occupied and held the attention and the imagination of almost all free countries in the mid-'30s and still could in the summer of 1963 in his own capital dominate the affairs of his continent...
This year Balliol (pronounced BALE-yul) is seven centuries old, and it celebrated the birthday in a flurry of skyrockets, French cuisine and champagne toasts. On hand were 2,000 Balliol graduates (Prime Minister Macmillan excused himself to dine with J.F.K.) from Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to King Olaf of Norway and Boston Financier William Appleton Coolidge. Whether or not Balliol really was 700-an agreed age more than a historic fact-they cheerily drank the ancient toast, Floreat dornus de Balliolo, meaning roughly, boola, boola Balliol...
...longer needed it. De Gaulle is said to be prepared to climax his visit with an offer of a $10 million development loan; French investments in Greece already total $60 million and are second only to U.S. investment. At a palace banquet, De Gaulle made clear in a toast to King Paul that he hopes to extend France's influence from the "northern seas," which he called one of France's boundaries, to the eastern Mediterranean, where, he pointed out, Greece is the "hinge between the Latin and Slavic worlds, as well as between Western Europe...