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...monks of Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey, near Bardstown, Ky., have a thriving mail order business in cheese, fruit cakes, hams, bacon and summer sausage. They are noted for their cheese, which is made according to a secret formula originated at the Trappist monastery in Port du Salut, France, 700 years ago; only two monks at Gethsemani know the secret, the cheesemaker and an apprentice...
...Francisco. While New York probably has more nightclub activity than any European city, it cannot touch the vulgarity of Hamburg or the competitive, nuder-than-thou spirit of Paris, where G-strings are worn only by fiddles, and one hilariously surrealist female statue-at the Port du Salut-has a heart-shaped chamber carved in her left breast, in which two white mice play...
...regular navy officer. The "very odd and very gifted" Physicist Lindemann was "repressed, suspicious, malevolent." A fanatic Englishman-by-adoption, he was a fierce ascetic who shunned sensual pleasures. Snow recalls him as "an extreme and cranky vegetarian who lived largely on the whites of eggs,† Port Salut cheese and olive...
...Volume III of his memoirs, Le Salut (The Salvation), just published in Paris, General Charles de Gaulle, who was once dubbed a spoiled prima donna by Franklin D. Roosevelt, insists that F.D.R.'s "bitter words showed his bad humor rather than a deep sentiment toward me. If he had lived longer, he would have understood and appreciated the reasons which guided...
...Dublin statue of Cú Chulainn. the legendary Irish hero. Paris provided the most unusual welcome, however. As the Wagners arrived at Orly airfield, several young girls pushed through the crowd of officials and shed their coats to welcome the mayor in skimpy red, white and blue bathing suits. "Salut, Monsieur le Maire," they screamed, then rushed to cuddle Wagner for the photographers. Mrs. Wagner quickly sized up the situation, firmly disengaged her astonished husband and led him away while gendarmes shooed off the girls-Miss France of 1954, Miss France of 1955. and Miss Paris of 1955. Said Family...