Word: fiesta
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...Eggs Chimay recipe published by Craig Claiborne (who also happened to be one of the six judges). The Detroit Tigers' Rusty Staub, who in his days as a Met studied cookery in several Manhattan restaurants, batted out a savory Oysters Rockefeller casserole. Celeste Holm concocted Shrimp Fiesta. Newscaster Carl Stokes reproduced his Mother's Best Home Fried Chicken. Designer Pauline Trigere, wearing an elegant Trigere gown, made Spaghetti Pauline. Actor Joel Grey and Wife Jo prepared Mexican Quesadillas. First prize (a basket of wines and liquor) went to New York magazine's resident gourmet, Gael Greene...
...last acts as president, Lutz announced that German Ford had earned a record $111 million profit in 1975. Ford's share of the German market is up to 14.9% (v. Opel's 17.9%), and it should rise further in the fall with introduction of the Fiesta, a minicar that will be made in Germany, Spain and Britain to compete with Volkswagen's Rabbit and similar cars (TIME, July 12). Though planning for the Fiesta was well advanced when Lutz joined Ford, the design incorporates some of his ideas...
...little later, Republican Ronald Reagan went through a similar R.-and-R. weekend, with appropriate regional differences. At his 600-acre Rancho del Cielo, in the Santa Ynez Mountains 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, he entertained 80 reporters and staff at a Mexican fiesta. Wearing a Western shirt, blue jeans and boots, he greeted guests with Wife Nancy at his side. Donning a cowboy hat, Reagan shouted to the TV camera pointed at him, "Ready when you are, C.B.!" a joking reference to the late director Cecil B. DeMille...
...most serious drawback to Fiesta's manufacturing plans at this point seems to be the labor militancy and inflation that have been on the rise in Spain since Franco's death. "I don't think our political antennae were working too well when we chose Spain for a major investment," says a senior official in Ford's European headquarters. Things are running smoothly there now. But since bodies for all the Fiestas assembled in Europe will be manufactured chiefly at the Ford plant in Valencia, Spain, a strike could mean a long siesta for Ford workers...
...reception was cool, Juan Carlos and his handsome, tough-minded Queen Sofia, of the Greek royal family, were greeted by tumultuous, even ecstatic crowds. The King impressed the throngs at Montserrat by addressing them in the Catalan language. Many villages and small towns they visited were enveloped in a fiesta atmosphere. Crude posters of support sprouted in the dusty plazas, though some signs, as in Jerez de la Frontera, aired complaints: THE COTTON INDUSTRY is DYING. Carefully, Juan Carlos responded: "On such a short visit I am not in a position to examine all your problems, but we take note...