Word: lobsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before taking off for a weekend at Salem Castle on Lake Constance with Philip's sister the Dowager Margravine of Baden, Elizabeth visited the Nymphenburg porcelain factory in Munich and watched the German Olympics equestrian team go through its paces. Over a lunch of lobster Vierjahreszeiten, duckling a I'orange, peaches Bavarian and four German wines, she heard Bavaria's Premier Alfons Goeppel talk of the need for friendship between Britain and Germany. "We have been slow, perhaps, in realizing this," he said. "But there the famous phrase of your nation applies-better late than never...
...Gaulle and President Castello Branco issued a communiqué expressing the hope that "the two governments will reach fully satisfactory results as rapidly as possible regarding the other questions still pending between France and Brazil." The most outstanding of these problems is the Brazilian claim that once Brazilian, a lobster always remains Brazilian, no matter how far he strays on the continental shelf, and that French fishermen who capture them are pirates...
Friendly Aloofness. Apart from a possible lobster truce, the tangible re sults of De Gaulle's peregrinations were far from impressive. The general gave vague promises of technical aid and increased trade. He flattered South American self-esteem with lofty references to Bolivar, San Martín and Sucre, and in turn was feted with speeches filled with mentions of Pascal, Racine, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Jeanne d'Arc. He entertained the rich and wellborn at receptions, and nodded and waved with friendly but aloof dignity to the huge crowds that jammed the streets and the squares...
...Bird Johnson, all mingled merrily in the throng at the royal ball in the Athens palace gardens. Searchlights blazed a cross in the sky under a three-quarter moon, and tiaras winked thick as fireflies as 1,600 guests danced under the giant cypress trees, sipped champagne, and ate lobster and chicken off plain white plates with stainless steel cutlery...
...Mekong Delta back road, a country cop flags down a row of buses packed with peasants, cabbages and poultry, to let a column of armored personnel-carriers rumble past to a fire fight just ahead. In a village hut in Kienhoa province, an old woman lies dying, broiled lobster-red from napalm, while a soldier spoons watery soup between her flayed lips. At another hamlet a teen-age girl, driven mad from the explosions of mortar shells, runs screaming from her house across the paddy-fields, stark nude...