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...years a firm of language merchants has sold monolingual Americans what most U.S. high schools and colleges do not give-the conversational skill to haggle with a foreign hackie, wrangle with a waiter, or, as has been necessary more than once, the ability to ask directions to the U.S. embassy in the country to which the customer has just been appointed ambassador. Last week in Manhattan, President Robert Strumpen-Darrie (some twelve languages) and Vice President Charles Berlitz (23 languages) of the Berlitz Schools of Languages, spoke happily of statistics: last year the firm grossed an estimated $10 million from...
...about Van's beanpole, 6-ft.-4-in. frame, asked him why he was so tall. Grinned Van: "Because I'm from Texas." At a second Kremlin reception, Khrushchev bore down on Cliburn with hands outstretched, jovially introduced him to his son, daughter and granddaughter. When a waiter appeared with champagne, teetotaling Van shifted from one foot to another, murmured "I really don't care for any," finally took a glass, clinked, sipped and discarded it. Even Nikolai Bulganin was at the party; with grave courtesy, Van addressed him as "Mr. Molotov...
...Trapeze are sellouts). In bars (where only foreigners and party bureaucrats have cash enough to drink regularly) U.S.-make jukeboxes squawk the raucous normalcy of rock 'n' roll. But the iron fist looms through the shoddy substitute for velvet: at a Budapest restaurant, a grey-haired old waiter is seized by security police, vanishes. His crimes: he has a young relative who is studying to be a priest, and he has been observed chatting with foreigners in scraps of languages picked up when he worked abroad years ago. He is deported to his native village. The old waiter...
...critic, but she won a tumultuous ovation. Meanwhile the Opera management withheld Soprano Callas' fee (rumored close to $2,000). The week's last word belonged to a maid at the Quirinale, who said: "She cannot have lost her voice. I heard her screaming at the waiter...
...bring to Capitol Hill a longtime friendship with the racketeers who lurk in the background of the West Side's ward politics. A pal of the late underworld overlord Al Capone, Libonati is still on chummy terms with former Capone henchmen such as Tony Accardo and Paul ("the Waiter") Ricca, who are really "charitable" and "patriotic" fellows, according to Libby. During his two decades in the state legislature, Libby opposed legislation urged by the Chicago Crime Commission, backed bills that gamblers also liked. One piece of legislation paid off nicely: after Libby helped put through a bill authorizing harness...