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...building between the house and Senate wings remained the same for every inaugural (except Taft's indoor ceremony) from Jackson to Eisenhower. But it did not wear well. The walls and columns, cut from a Virginia sandstone quarry owned by George Washington, crumbled in many places like stale cake...
Simple Canapés. Except where wealthy men are in charge, U.S. embassies are often forced to serve bread while rivals offer cake. To celebrate the anniversary of the October Revolution, the Soviet embassy in Bonn last year hired the city's best club, lavished 500 guests with vodka, Crimean champagne and caviar. For the traditional Fourth of July celebration, able U.S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling, a careerman, could afford only $287-enough to give 360 visitors a pass at trays of simple canapes and a sip of cheap German sparkling wine. In Leopoldville, where the Belgians established...
...runs to three or four times what a nun teacher costs, yet is enough lower than public school pay to make them hard to recruit. These rising costs put an extra strain on the collection plate-and spur on such typically Catholic fund-raising gimmicks as bingo, raffles, cake sales and carnivals...
...Recipe (as prepared by Disney's special effects department): To 1 lb. saltwater taffy add 1 heaping tbs. polyurethane foam, 1 cake crumbled yeast. Mix till smooth, allow to rise. Then pour into saucepan over 1 cup cracked rice mixed with 1 cup water. Add topping of molasses. Boil till it lifts lid and says "Qurlp...
...Harvard hockey team, this year's Ivy champion, will try to add frosting to the cake when it takes on Yale in the final game of the season tonight at Ingalls Rink in New Haven...