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Harassed but unruffled, graceful Georges Bidault commuted with a dancer's step between the Foreign Ministers' treaty talks at the Luxembourg Palace (see INTERNATIONAL) and the Palais-Bourbon, where the French Assembly had made him provisional chief of state. To complicate Bidault's task of Cabinetmaking, the Communists egged on the labor unions to demand inflationary wage increases to meet rising living costs...
...Memphis newspapers proudly pointed out, the biggest celebration in the Carnival's 75-year history. Warmed with blended bourbon, many a Memphian decided that in this year of peace & plenty it was even better than New Orleans' historic Mardi gras. Despite occasional rain, the city echoed to the sound of countless parades; of parties and balls at which Carnival satraps made glittering entrances. The Cotton King and his Queen were regal with crowns, scepters, robes and brocades. Memphis' secret organizations (Osiris, Ra-Met, Scarabs, Sphinx, etc.) had princes & princesses of their own, dressed them almost as brightly...
After a few shots of precious Kentucky bourbon (Kentuckians rhyme it with turban), strangers would almost believe what Louisvillians tell them-that you can smell the blue grass (which is 30 miles away at Shelbyville...
...musty chambers of Lima's venerable Gran Hotel Bolívar, over bourbon-and-sodas, representatives of the world's major oil companies also studied the supposedly secret Curtice plan. They grumbled at proposed royalties that would resemble the prevailing Venezuelan scale of 16⅔%. Such percentages, they said, were fair enough in proven fields like Venezuela, but high for Peru, where exploration costs are probably the highest in the world and where the trans-Andean pipeline to bring oil out to the west coast might cost...
Seattleites were pleased but slightly puzzled by Soviet Naval Lieutenant Nikolai G. Redin. The dark, handsome, 29-year-old lieutenant did his work as a Soviet Purchasing Commission liaison officer without a word about Marx, Engels, commissars or strikes. He was polite, played squash, drank bourbon and once enlivened a New Washington Hotel stag party by dropping to his heels and doing the "kazatski." After he had been in Seattle a while (he came in 1942), some people who had been a little uppish about Russians began to think better of them...