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Still, pick a spot-any spot-and the chances are good that there is a way to get there. Most popular are the traditional stopovers-London, Paris, Rome-though many of the bargain spots of yesteryear are now hopelessly overcrowded. Out this season, says Fielding, are Torremolinos on Spain's Costa del Sol ("It has been overrun by the beats and the yé-yés; there are five different sexes there at least"), the French Riviera ("fading fast"), Italy's Adriatic coast below Venice ("absolutely overrun with Germans"), the islands of Ibiza and Majorca ("This stabs...
...players. As a spectacle it was a tribute to marital bliss-and the unassailable fact that two can live cheaper than one. Gone were the dark tales of interleague raiding, of burly "baby sitters" keeping prize prospects hidden from rival league kidnapers. Gone too were the fantastic bonuses of yesteryear. The most a top draft choice could expect was a mere $200,000 or so-which is nice enough, but nothing like the $485,000 that Quarterback Joe Namath got from the New York Jets...
...birthday. The husband is comforted neither by apples, affluence, martinis, the Democrats, nor a dead God. The partners turn inward-defeated by teenyboppers, Red China, polluted air, Kinsey's statistics, retreating hairlines, wash day, the office bastard, a pot-smoking son, Leda's swan, the snows of yesteryear. They devour each other and emerge as One, shrieking. It is better to have loved and flipped than never to have loved...
Tastes & Teflon. Today, when weight watching is a national pastime, the gargantuan fare of yesteryear is hard to digest, even in imagination. First to use an element of scientific method in home cooking was Mrs. D. A. Lincoln, whose 1883 Boston Cook Book introduced accurate measurements, explained, for instance, that a piece of "butter the size of an egg" was equal to 2 oz., or one-fourth of a cup. But it remained for one of her students, Fannie Farmer, who borrowed freely (and without credit) from Mrs. Lincoln, to make her precepts into national guidelines with The Boston Cooking...
Guests at last week's National Day receptions were struck by the difference from previous celebrations. Instead of the Scotch and gin of yesteryear, only Chinese rice wine was served at most places, though a few embassies offered a throat-searing liquor called...