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...Despite lavish if clandestine American support of pro-government forces, the Communists today control roughly four-fifths of Laos' territory and one-third of its 2,800,000 people (see map). This has been achieved not by the feckless Pathet Lao but by the North Vietnamese, who have at least 65,000 soldiers in Laos-more proportionally than they have in South Viet Nam. Furnished with tanks, long-range Soviet-made 130-mm, guns and what Western observers describe as "some of the finest and most highly motivated infantry in the world" (see story, following page), Hanoi...
...borrow a method which Balzac refined the physiological portrait, readers are known to be solipsistic, irritable, and insomniac; their version of the world is invented in sacerdotal studies where late at night, the loud voices competing about the lavish midnight supper tables described in Falubert's Sentimental Education in Balzac's Los: Illusions in Zola's Nana rise above the roar of traffic down in the street. Thin urban, and afflicted with nervous habits, the reader has to "put on spectacles" (and, with rare exceptions, defective in such natural endowments, he does wear spectacles) to reduce the blur which contemplation...
...restless SCLC convention that Angela Davis addressed in August, one devoid of those softening luxuries that had made most previous conventions more noteworthy for their cuisine than for their resolutions. In fact, there was even some grumbling this year about the menu at the usually lavish annual banquet. Instead of feasting upon healthy portions of some exquisite gourmet's delight, delegates were served a spare repas of turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes, green peas and rice pudding. There wasn't even a salad, because SCLC supports the boycott on lettuce. The reason for both the thin menu and much...
...Jennie Grossinger, 80, owner and reigning hostess of a vast Catskill Mountain resort 100 miles northwest of New York City; of a stroke; in Grossinger, N.Y. From guests to cuisine, Grossinger's has always been predominantly Jewish, but the nearly 150,000 people who take advantage of its lavish hospitality every year are an ecumenical crew. Its style might be called Borscht Belt Baroque-rich food served copiously, big name entertainment, luxurious facilities that encouraged year-round patronage. Jennie and Husband Harry, who died in 1964, built Grossinger's from a tidy family boardinghouse into a 600-room...
TALLULAH by Brendan Gill. 287 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $25. This is the second in an informal series of lavish productions about great names in show business. It suffers badly in comparison with Cole, its predecessor, which among other things re-created the all-out sheer pizazz of the '30s. Porter was a genius, Bankhead a personality. Cole's lyrics enriched the previous book incalculably; in this volume Critic Brendan Gill, who treats her life with proper studied indulgence, confesses that most of Tallulah's talk worth repeating is unprintable...