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...What in heaven's name is Chicken Marengo?" whispered the diner, bemused prototype of millions of restaurant guests. "I don't know," his wife whispered back. "Why don't you ask the waiter?" The gentleman looked embarrassed. "Certainly not," he said. "I will order the hamburger steak...
...days later, Charleston County detectives picked up two sullen, slack-jawed young ex-convicts named LeRoy Parker and James Lawing in a highway diner near Charleston. It took an all-white jury only 4½ hours to find both guilty of murder. Because the jury recommended mercy, the convicts were sentenced to life imprisonment...
Captain Karpe walking forward in the train to the diner. He passed through the crowded Bucharest day coach, sat down at a table with an American student. Karpe complained a bit about his aching leg, drank only a bottle of seltzer water for his meal. Then he left the table...
...store a big sign asked: "Would you like to eat a piece of Bubi?" Viennese, who combine sentimentality and practicality, dried their tears and flocked in. "Half of Bubi," reported one Vienna paper at week's end, "has disappeared into the stomachs of the Viennese." A frequent diner at The Elephant was Circus Owner Rebernigg himself. A Viennese child had sent him five schillings (about 25?) to start a collection for another elephant-not to be eaten...
...cars. He is closing a deal with one road to supply its meals much as he does the airlines' and he is dickering with several others. Dobbs figures that he will be able to serve better food than railroad passengers now get, and at the same time cut diner losses at least in half...