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Underdog began its career selling varieties of Hebrew National hot dogs--plain, with cheese and bacon (the blasphemy), stuffed into a fresh French bread with Dijon mustard (the sauci), and so on. Then it began to expand its repertoire, at the request of the pinball regulars...
Moreover, the Vatican apparently believes that a portrait of a Pope is ipso facto a religious image; this illusion has stuffed the Borgia Apartments with a plethora of weak, vulgar bronzes of recent pontiffs. The only distinguished image of a Pope in the collection is one of Francis Bacon's variations on Velásquez's Innocent X. The gift of Italian Automobile Tycoon Gianni Agnelli, it sits, mouth open in a feral and silent snarl, glaring at the sacramental kitsch around it. But that it should be hung as "religious" art is unconscious black humor...
...Haldeman told Clark Mollenhoff, then a Special Counsel to the President (since returned to his reporting job for the Des Moines Register and Tribune), to acquire the information, and Mollenhoff agreed after being assured by Haldeman that Nixon wanted it. Mollenhoff got it from Assistant IRS Commissioner Donald W. Bacon. The report, which claimed that Gerald Wallace might have failed to report kickbacks from state liquor sales and federal highway contracts, was then leaked to Columnist Jack Anderson by a source "at the highest White House level," said Mollenhoff in a Judiciary Committee affidavit. The aim apparently was to impair...
...among those elementary French foods attempted by every French class at one time or another. Prices at Fromage Import are very reasonable--for under $2 you can get one of the specialties, a salad and a beverage ranging from mineral water to apple beer. A serving of mushroom, bacon, feta, chive, ham, spinach, mussel or ratatouille quiche is 95 cents. Even without your French class, a "field trip" to Fromage Import is worth...
...Wall Street's Bregman Securities Co., reports that last fall A. & P. began hiking its prices substantially in the Midwest and Northeast. A recent comparison-shopping survey by the Croton Consumer Action Organization in New York's Westchester County found that a pound of Oscar Mayer bacon cost $1.39 at A. & P. v. $1.19 at Grand Union; a 9-oz. package of Birds Eye frozen green beans, 33? v. 31?; Kraft mayonnaise, 63? v. 69?; 5 lbs. of Florida oranges 89? v. 69?; a pound of Land O'Lakes butter...