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Possibly in the interests of international decorum, the government did not specify charges, but every Lebanese trader could itemize the likeliest opportunities for a safqa (deal) in the foreign service: peddling diplomatic codes and official reports, for example, or trading in black-market currencies. One confidential dispatch recently turned up in a Cairo newspaper before it reached the foreign office in Beirut...
Chef René Verdon quit the White House kitchen rumbling that California wines are très ordinaires and Lyndon's favorite dishes are fit only for Him. That was too much for California-born Restaurateur Victor Bergeron, 63, better known as Trader Vic for his string of 13 Polynesian eateries around the U.S. He forked over $3,612 to buy a full page in San Francisco's Examiner & Chronicle to baste René in an open letter. A sampling: "By what stretch of the imagination do you think that French cooking is the only cuisine...
...West as a vigorous and colorful Governor of the New Mexico Territory. But until the appearance of this autobiography, now published for the first time some 72 years after Meriwether's death, few will have known anything about his early life as a frontiersman and Indian trader. Dictated by Meriwether to a granddaughter in 1886, when he was 85, the manuscript was hidden away as a family heirloom until a great-granddaughter made it available for publication...
...that the Indians were on the rampage. At 14, he rode 100 miles in 48 hours carrying military dispatches. He trekked to the Upper Missouri in 1819, saw Sante Fe as a prisoner of the Spaniards in 1820, spent a bitter winter on the Great Plains, became an Indian trader at Fort Osage...
...enough to convince Rickey that his talents were better suited to the front office. Over the next 50-odd years, with the St. Louis Browns, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates, he established himself as "the Mahatma," "the Brain," the brightest innovator, shrewdest trader and smartest judge of talent in the history of baseball...