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Colonel DeVere Armstrong, USA, professor of Military Science, rotated into his turn as master of ceremonies this year and welcomed the audience to the moist and heavy-aired Sever Quadrangle theatre after leading the speakers' party through two tight, stiff rows of cadets and midshipmen...
...souffle secrets with the New York Times: "Egg whites are beaten by hand with a wire whisk or not at all. You beat and beat. Of course, you may drop dead in the end, but no matter. I don't understand why American cookbooks state 'beat until stiff but still moist.' That's nonsense. We beat the daylights out of them and turn out the finest souffles you've ever tasted...
...their 18-month-old son, Baker got word that the Soviet Foreign Ministry had declared him persona non grata on grounds that he "systematically violated the norms of behavior for diplomatic representatives." Translation: John Baker was persona too grata to the young Russians, who had been raised on a stiff diet of hate-America propaganda...
...eleven are going to French class after school, in the public library; half a dozen boys aged six to eight are getting a first look at science in a floating class that rotates from home to home on Saturday mornings; ten boys aged nine to eleven are digesting a stiff science course in a day-nursery classroom...
...Algerian generals could not be heard in the sleepy (pop. 365) village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, 150 miles southeast of Paris. But these were expectant sounds that reverberated in the imagination of Colombey's first citizen, a towering man of 67 with an equine face and the stiff, awkward movements of a French career soldier. And they were sounds that drove him at last to pick up the telephone, an instrument he dislikes, and summon an aide from Paris to receive a typically laconic statement: "For twelve years France, at grips with problems too harsh for the regime...