Word: vic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troubled by a problem, it may be that she is somewhat overweight (size 18). "I feel about diets the way I feel about airplanes," she says. "They are wonderful things for other people to go on." She has a life membership at Vic Tanny's, but has used it only three times, and is thinking of giving it to a deserving friend. Still, if she is ever dissatisfied with her own image, she can look at the Broadway play, Critic's Choice, which is frankly, if superficially, based on Mr. and Mrs. Kerr; there she is portrayed by Georgann Johnson...
...porous Sox infield came up with its own version of the "around the horn" play--errors by third baseman Pete Runnels, shortstop Pumpsie Green, and second baseman Chuck Schilling, along with un-gazelle-like play from first sacker Vic Wertz...
...young, handsome Governor Mark Hatfield as a possible regional favorite son. Two of California's just-retired party leaders-former Chairman George Milias and ex-Finance Chairman Bob Power-led off the parade to Salem, followed shortly by the director of the G.O.P. Senate Campaign Committee, Vic Johnston, and, most recently, by several leading Los Angeles County politicians. The Californians were impressed, and Hatfield is beginning to show all the signs of latent presidential fever...
Since the first Trader Vic's opened in Oakland, Calif., in 1938, Bergeron has set up another restaurant in San Francisco and manages seven others-three for the Hilton hotel chain (in New York, Chicago and Beverly Hills), four for Western Hotels (in Portland, Ore., Seattle, Denver, and one that opened last week in Vancouver, B.C.). This summer the Trader will start two more restaurants for Hilton, in Washington, D.C., and San Juan, will open a third, owned by himself, in Phoenix. There will also be a Trader Vic's in the new London Hilton. Last year...
...with the Neck. Secret of Trader Vic Bergeron's success is his preference for South Sea atmosphere rather than culinary authenticity. "How are you going to make a pig in the ground in your restaurant?" asks Bergeron. "Furthermore, you can't eat real Polynesian food. It's the most horrible junk I've ever tasted...