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...their rubber dinghy, the commandos, loaded down with rucksacks and Kalashnikov rifles, ran down Samuel Esplanade, the main shore drive, firing at a movie theater and tossing grenades at a wedding hall. Passers-by fled in all directions, but few suspected an Arab attack. Said Gabi Edri, 17, a waiter at a wedding reception: "We thought they were criminals with a score to settle...
...continued after lunch and lasted for another hour of questions and answers. The Cubans were interested in inflation in the United States, the manifestations of racism, North Americans' dissatisfaction with unemployment, and the U.S. working class's opinion of Cuba. After the last 15 minutes of the session, a waiter brought in more refreshments. Cigarette packages were passed around and two new boxes of cigars were opened. To complete the protocol, representatives from the Cuban officials and from our delegation stood up to exchange thanks and compliment one another...
Died. Julian Ormsby Gore, 33, son of Britain's Lord Harlech and archetypal playboy of London's swinging, kinky '60s; apparently by his own hand (gunshot); in London. Ormsby Gore, who worked as a waiter and male model, was found by his sister Alice, 22, in his silver-painted West London apartment, a .22-cal. pistol lying by his hand...
...process of obtaining a tract of land and becoming a "somebody," Duddy's eagerness to be accepted evokes our pity, while his childlike audacity endears him to us. His fawning over customers as a waiter in a Catskills-like resort is understandable in light of his enthusiastic desire to please. His abominable treatment of his girlfriend seems pardonable when he describes to her how beautiful it will be when he finally gets the land he yearns...
...soup arrives lukewarm, dessert does not arrive at all, and the bill bears little relation to what was ordered. Even so, the restaurant patron is likely to add 15% to the check for the waiter or waitress, then go home grumbling about the injustices of tipping. For the dissatisfied diner who is too timid to complain aloud, there is a palatable remedy: a union of restaurant victims called Tippers International...