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...laws. Should the Confederacy be established, such shenanigans would be of no more than parochial interest, to be regarded by the 37 United States in the same light as revolts in Iran . . . The Southerners could buy our automobiles and we would buy their textiles. Barley would go for bourbon and books for petroleum. The U.S. would undoubtedly do the handsome thing by sponsoring the C.S.A. for entry into the United Nations, where Khrushchev & Co. would soon learn a thing or two about the fine art of obstructionism...
...longest-lived of all U.S. Vice Presidents (and older than any President lived to be), Uvalde, Texas' own John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, turned 92 and didn't care who knew it. Gone were the cigars and bourbon and branch water ("striking a blow for liberty") that he gave up just before his 90th birthday. He is still quick to provide visitors with the wherewithal to strike their own blows, but his current personal quaff is just plain grapefruit juice...
...have found that they can pack their restaurant not only by playing the music of the masters but also with modernist works of such composers as Irving Fine and Gunther Schuller. Next: Menotti's 30-minute opera The Telephone. The musicians find the whole thing relaxing, and countless bourbon drinkers have told O'Neill that they have never heard Beethoven in quite so clear a tone...
Since most users agree that the stuff is vile-tasting ("It's glubby," said a Dallas dieter, "absolutely nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato...
Professional people are especially harpsichord-prone. Doctors, psychiatrists, teachers and ministers are among the most active amateurs in the New York area. In New Orleans, Attorney Thomas B. Lemann finds himself hard put to explain his own harpsichordia ("Why do you prefer bourbon to Scotch?"), but admits that "there is a simplicity about it" that appeals strongly to his children, who are being raised without any knowledge of the upstart piano. Most harpsichord buffs have a strong proprietary sense. When a New Orleans amateur, Charles Hazlett, lent his harpsichord to touring Virtuoso Fernando Valenti, the visitor was amazed. Said Valenti...