Word: waiters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spaniards call hi-lifers (pronounced hee-leefairs). Grandest of all is a converted palace in old Madrid, where, under 18th century tapestries and paintings of the court, diners are offered the specialty of the house: a whole chicken baked in clay, Roman-style, which is deftly parted by the waiter's silver hammer...
Meanwhile, the mob was already split over who should succeed Silent Sam Giancana as head of Chicago's hoodlumhood. One night last week two groups of aspiring chieftains reportedly held simultaneous meetings. One was attended by such upstanding citizens as Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca, Tony ("Big Tuna") Accardo and Jackie ("The Lackey") Cerone. The other gathering was graced by Sam ("Teetz") Battaglia, Felix ("Milwaukee Phil") Alderisio and Fiori ("Fifi") Buccieri. The betting was that several of the syndicate's leading lights would soon resort to silence-one way or another...
Though From Russia with Love remains the liveliest Bond opera to date, Thunderball is by all odds the most spectacular. Its script hasn't a morsel of genuine wit, but Bond fans, who are preconditioned to roll in the aisles when their hero merely asks a waiter to bring some beluga caviar and Dom Pérignon '55, will probably never notice. They are switched on by a legend that plays straight to the senses, and its colors are primary. Director Terence Young dunks his camera into a swimming pool full of sharks for the film...
Rhodesia is committed to a broad-based educational system much like that in the United States. This means that most of the funds for education are channeled into the primary schools. Thus it may seem to some that the Rhodesian African is getting a "waiter's education," but the government has decided to educate many people in order to build an informed citizenry. Ninety-five per cent of all eligible by age African children are in primary school...
Latter-Day O'Learys. At first, many thought the darkness came from within. A middle-aged executive who had been playing a too-vigorous game of basketball wondered if the fading light before his eyes signaled a massive coronary. A waiter who had just been inoculated against hay fever had a moment of terror. "Zap!" he thought. "Wrong vaccine." In Manhattan, a Negro maid looked out the window, told her employer to come on over and see "all the lights going out in tribute to Dorothy Kilgallen...