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...wine-country stop that beguiles many people is the relaxed, pleasantly bucolic New Boonville Restaurant, about 2˝ hours northwest of San Francisco. The restaurant appeals both to stylish celebrities like Angela Lansbury and casually dressed locals. Charlene and Vernon Rollins, the husband and wife who run this restaurant, grow most of their own produce in a sprawling garden on their grounds. It is now a shimmer of color with orange peppers, green to red tomatoes, emerald zucchini and rose-gold peaches. The Rollinses raise much of their own poultry and serve most meats and fish simply grilled. Their delectable goat...
...chief usher, who is in charge of running the physical White House. Scouten was on duty when Ike had his slight stroke that year and aides gently persuaded him not to go to the state dinner that night. Scouten helped execute Jackie Kennedy's dinner on Mount Vernon's lawn for Pakistan's President Ayub Khan, a logistics marvel that involved preparing the food in field kitchens and transporting guests down the Potomac. "Thank goodness the weather was good," he recalled, an all-time understatement. Scouten was supervising the redecoration of the Oval Office when one of J.F.K.'s staff...
...European officers, indeed even some senior NATO figures, argue that the U.S. strike was not strong enough to attain its military objectives. It neither destroyed nor destabilized the Gaddafi regime. It may, instead, have compelled moderate Arab governments to rally behind Gaddafi. Mitterrand and Chirac complained to U.S. Envoy Vernon Walters that a limited bombing raid could stir up a new wave of Islamic extremism. "With a victory like that, who needs a defeat?" said Dominique Moďsi, a French strategic expert...
...sneak them deftly into the left-field bleachers. I happen to believe Derek Jeter—to the dismay of most of the readers of this column, apparently—is indeed “clutch,” and I once incurred lewd hand-gesturing from Toronto outfielder Vernon Wells...
DIED. JOHN VERNON, 72, prolific Canadian-born character actor, best known for his role as the paranoid Dean Wormer, nemesis of John Belushi's Bluto and Bluto's unkempt fraternity brothers in the 1978 John Landis comedy Animal House; in his sleep, at his home in Van Nuys, Calif...