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...coffee while your waitress waddles over in her Elizabethan pantaloons. A glance down the menu reveals nothing exotic-just square Middle American fare. The only ethnic flavor maybe is a pale, faint hint of Pennsylvania Dutch that is suggested by the filling hot sandwiches and gravybread. The hot roast beef sandwich comes with a good bowl of French onion soup, the sopped bread floating on the top. Even if it does not quite match the Maitre Jacques version (it needs melted cheese), the soup contributes substantially to a rather cheap meal...
This time the President of Guinea seemed to have a legitimate beef. The U.N.'s own man in Conakry, Guinea's capital, told of seeing men disembarking from four unmarked vessels-among them an LST and a 5,000-ton cargo vessel. Heading for shore in small boats, the invaders came under heavy fire. Eyewitnesses later estimated the force at 350 men wearing Guinean army uniforms without emblems. Most of the invaders were black, but there were some whites as well...
...lived in France since 1951, Olney is a rare newcomer who has found acceptance with the U.S. cooking establishment on his first publication. Too many people, Olney thinks, confuse grande cuisine with "Grand Palace, or international hotel cooking." The truth is that Escoffier never found fillet of beef in pastry fit for Wellington or anyone else, and virtually nothing-except an occasional intemperate chef-came out of the kitchen in a blaze of brandy...
...maids, bellboys, waitresses, showgirls and hawkers, pr men. Tourists. But no, not tourists. Not in Vegas. And, the center of it all, Elvis, jes keeps on singin'. Surround him, cameras roll up and down through the labyrinthic entrails of the International. Elvis, dwarfed by eight foot high shanks of beef, by linen and glassware and advertising. By MGM celluloid. Elvis. That...
...were aware of the game's tradition might have gone to that contest just for the sake of making a trip to Providence. There you can see the Peter Pan Bus Terminal, the room in the YMCA where Rogers Williams College students learn math, and the Beef and Bun. In fact, Cap'n Crunch recommends a trip to Providence today, at about...