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LOWER LIQUOR PRICES for hotel room service are kicking up flurry in Manhattan. By chopping prices for Scotch from $12 to $7 a bottle, bourbon from $12.50 to $7.50, Hotel Roosevelt boosted June room-service bottle sales 273%, dollar volume 143%. Other hotels, where prices for Scotch, etc. range as high as $13.50, protest price-cutting, say that they cannot afford lower prices...
...Fourth of July garden party in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen led the Soviet Union's top topers, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, to a table laden with Scotch and bourbon. TV crewmen popped a microphone under the nose of Bulganin, who genially obliged with a toast to the American people and the health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets...
...stratosphere of world finance. He is an elegant dresser (Homburg from London's James Lock & Co., suits from Savile Row's Henry Poole), an amusing storyteller, a man of omnivorous tastes, who sums up his chief delights (besides Shakespeare) as "the four Bs-banking, baseball, Balzac and bourbon." As he makes his rounds, he speaks in an irretrievable Southern drawl, mixes so well that he charms people no matter how anti-banker or anti-American they are apt to be. Once, at a state dinner given by Marshal Tito, the conversation through interpreters was dragging badly when Tito...
...reunion with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than...
States-General since 1789.*Peeling off coat, vest and tie, Poujade orated: "When delegates from every corner of France, backed by half a million Frenchmen, gather at the Porte de Versailles, Republican legality will no longer be at the Palais Bourbon but there where we are." At this heady vision of a new march on Paris, every provincial shopkeeper and artisan delegate cheered lustily...