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Divorced. By Linda Darnell, 33, brunette cinemactress (Forever Amber, Second Chance): Philip Liebmann, 40, president of Liebmann Breweries, Inc. (Rheingold); after 21 months of marriage; in Juarez, Mexico...
...Sense of Power. If the amber lights now being shown by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. do not change to red in coming months, travel to Moscow should gain, travel experts estimate, by several hundred Americans next year. Russia, too, is sending forth travelers, but they are men with a mission, whether political, like Bulganin and Khrushchev in India (see FOREIGN NEWS), or cultural, like Violinist David Oistrakh (see Music). Not for them the satisfaction of idle interests...
...wide swaths through fields of standing wheat, spewed out rivers of top-grade grain. Commercial elevators were soon chockablock. Farmers braced old sheds to withstand the fluid pressures of loose wheat, built new barns to hold the flood, and when all the sheds were filled, piled their wheat in amber hillocks on the ground. When the harvest was in, Canada's supply of wheat on hand stood at 992 million bushels...
Books about sexuality are not always as popular as books about nationality. Forever Amber, for example, sold 300,000 copies in France, but The Notebooks of Major Thompson, which is a Frenchman's idea of a Briton's idea of France, has sold 400,000 in the past year alone. One reason for the Major's triumph over Amber is that the Frenchman's need for national unity seems to go even deeper than his absorption in female cleavage. As for American readers, they may stand aside, laughing, and for once watch the fish of other...
...produced from a mash of 85% corn. 15% malt -no rats, snakes or lye. It is aged less than 30 days, and then the aging process is stopped by storing it in uncharred. paraffin-lined barrels. At $4.40 a quart ($2.25 a pint), it costs less than most aged amber whiskies but slightly more than moonshine ($3.50 to $4 a quart). North Carolinians snapped up the first consignment."Man," said one satisfied customer last week, "that's just like I was raised...