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...jokes, some of them wordplays on the name of General Mordechai ("Moka") Limon, Israel's chief of arms purchasing in Europe and the man in charge of the Cherbourg escape. One joke had France's President Georges Pompidou walking into a French cafe and gloomily telling a waiter: "I'll have coffee without moka and my wife will have tea without limon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Israel's Fugitive Flotilla | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

...Ralph Nader seems to know the answer to everything but eating in restaurants. He told the waiter to take his salad away because there was a fly in it. Always ask for and receive a fresh salad -then have the waiter take the first one away. That way you don't get the same salad without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1970 | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...fashionable Washington restaurant not long ago, a young man named Ralph Nader stopped suddenly and gazed down in disgust at his chef's salad. There, nestled among the lettuce leaves, lay a dead fly. Nader spun in his chair and jabbed both arms into the air to summon a waiter. Pointing accusingly at the intruder on his plate, he ordered: "Take it away!" The waiter apologized and rushed to produce a fresh salad, but Nader's anger only rose. While his luncheon companions watched the turmoil that had erupted around him, Nader launched into a detailed indictment of sanitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE U.S.'s TOUGHEST CUSTOMER | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...straight to the office of the president. Advised that the college had closed its admissions for the year, he nonetheless so impressed the authorities that they made room for him-and gave him a scholarship as well. To help put himself through college, he worked as a postal clerk, waiter, shoe salesman and mess boy on an oil tanker; he also wrote business articles for the New York Herald Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Professor with the Power | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...course, Robert Downey is insane. He has had the distinction of being kicked out of four schools, his house, the U.S. Army, and a waiter's job at Howard Johnson's (He yelled back orders like "veal parmegian, hold the veal."). He is the all-American guy gone wrong. He is nuts. He is also right...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Downey, Truth and Soul | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

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