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...dash of dry white vermouth. The exact recipe is ½ teaspoon of egg yolk put in a bowl with 1 tablespoon each of mustard and malt vinegar, plus a generous grinding of black pepper and, perhaps, a bit of finely minced garlic. I beat the mixture with a wire whisk while gradually adding 3 tablespoons of good olive oil. Last come 3 tablespoons of the vermouth...
...stylishly dressed party of eight lunching at a center table in Chicago's tony Ritz-Carlton restaurant is about to start the second course. As white-aproned waiters whisk in artichauts vinaigrette, the guests exchange amiable chitchat. Dark-haired August Walker Pelton regales the group with an anecdote about Princess Caroline of Monaco. "She tells me," he confides, "that when anyone in their family has elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after...
...agreement is reached, Federal Express hopes to begin flying small (under 73 Ibs.) high-priority packages across the Atlantic. According to one plan now under study, the Federal Express Concordes would fly from Washington's Dulles airport to Shannon, Ireland, where subsonic jets would pick up bundles and whisk them to major European cities. A package leaving Washington at 9 p.m. could arrive in Paris by 9 a.m. the next morning, despite losing six hours in time-zone changes. On the trip back through those same time zones, a shipment could leave Paris at 9 p.m. and reach Washington...
...drilling in a gas well that may go as deep as 20,000 ft., or almost twice the depth of any other well sunk so far in the state. Meanwhile, the corporate jets that brought them to Houghton Lake waited wingtip to wingtip at nearby Grayling McNamara Airport to whisk them back out again at nightfall...
...Energy and Security's demand-side economics and long-term strategies for forestalling crises won't square with the president-elect's laissiz-faire philosophy and gunboat diplomacy. You can bet his staff will whisk the study out the White House doors in less time than it takes to say, "I paid for this microphone...