Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...preposterous euphemism? One reason is the inarticulate waiter. Until the early 1960s, he knew food almost as well as the maitre d' and used his knowledge to good effect. If the restaurateur wanted to push calf's liver one day, he simply told his men, and they went among the tables and sold calf's liver. But now, "the biggest and most persistent problem in the industry is the dearth of good, experienced waiters," says Joe Baum, vice president of Manhattan's Restaurant Associates Industries, Inc. (Four Seasons, La Fonda...
...crew were caught in a whirlwind while sailing beyond the Pillars of Hercules and were lofted all the way to the moon. There the sailors witnessed a war between moonmen and invaders from the sun. It was all so alluring that, in a second book, another Lucian character went there on purpose: he simply donned wings and flew...
...Harold Bamberg has always figured on any list of up-by-the-bootstraps businessmen. He quit school at 17, joined the wartime R.A.F. and rose to the position of sergeantpilot. Later he acquired two old Halifax bombers, won some contracts to haul freight during the Berlin blockade, and went on to build an airline. Bamberg became a sterling millionaire. He played polo with Prince Philip at Windsor Great Park, traveled between country manor and luxury London flat in a chauffeured Rolls fitted with telephone, dictating machine and the license plate "H.B. 100." When asked how he had done so well...
...Brownie Troop. After his marriage to Pat, a Methodist, Nixon began to vary his habits of worship. In Washington, the Nixons generally attended whichever Protestant church was nearest their home. When they lived in the Spring Valley area, they went to Westmoreland Congregational Church. After they moved to Wesley Heights, their congregation became the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Church. Not only was the church just a few blocks away, Pat once explained, but it also sponsored the local Brownie troop to which the Nixon daughters belonged...
Since the ratings went into effect Nov. 1, the M.P.A.A. has classified more than 100 pictures. Yellow Submarine, for example, got a G. Only four films, including Birds in Peru, rated an X. Theater owners insist that they are abiding by the code; industry representatives generally believe it will prove workable...