Word: shrines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Jean-Baptiste Troisgros, 77, premier chef and bon vivant; of a heart attack while feasting; in Villefranchesur-Mer. Troisgros's Restaurant des Frères Troisgros in Roanne, 240 miles southeast of Paris, became a shrine for gourmets who came to sample his food and prejudices. "From 35 to 45, women are old," Troisgros once said. "Then the devil takes over and they're beautiful, splendid, maternal, proud ... When I see them my mouth waters...
...astonishing gaffes in Jerusalem, Waldheim managed to erode a fair amount of the goodwill that his visit was supposed to generate. First, at Yad Vashem, the shrine in memory of the 6,000,000 Jews killed by the Nazis, Waldheim refused to cover his head with a yarmulke. That offended even non-Orthodox Jews. Later at a State dinner, he expressed pleasure at being "here in your capital"-although the U.N., far from recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, has demanded that it be internationalized. That raised the Arabs' hackles. Apologies followed, but neither side was likely...
...public explanation was that Hirohito, whose October calendar is crowded with such events as a national athletic meet in Chiba prefecture and the 60th dedication of the Ise Shrine,* is simply too busy to make the trip this year. In fact, the imperial regrets were yet another sign of the internal political troubles besetting the eight-month-old Liberal Democratic regime headed by Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka...
...popular inspirational works on the lives of the saints and the life of Christ, and his long process of conversion began. Months later, at the Benedictine abbey of Montserrat, he exchanged his gentleman's clothes for a rough pilgrim's habit and dedicated his sword and dagger to the shrine's famed Black Virgin...
...Level Cross, where it was stripped down while another identical model was being totally rebuilt for this week's Rebel 500 at Darlington, S.C. As the mechanics worked, some of the 3,000 car buffs who tour Petty Enterprises each year looked on. Like pilgrims at a shrine, they inspected the last remnants of Papa Petty's old reaper shed and then repaired to a souvenir stand where they stocked up on Petty postcards, Petty T shirts, Petty racing jackets and Petty plaques. King Richard himself, wearing wraparound sunglasses and stroking his new Fu Manchu mustache...