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...Caviar, Tea or Vodka? At 10:55 a.m. Moscow time, Egorov fired up his four rear-mounted engines. Less than 20 minutes later we were airborne, cruising at 34,000 ft., doing 560 m.p.h. The tourist section, frankly, turned out to be roomier and more comfortable than tourist in most European and some American airlines. The six-across foamrubber seats had arms that lifted to provide a little extra room; pulling down the translucent smoked-plastic window shades was like putting on dark glasses. Soon after takeoff, the stewardesses came down with refreshments-tea from a family-sized aluminum...
...episodes for story. The Do-Gooders exemplifies this genre, along with A Bad Man by Stanley Elkin and A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker. Manhattan-born Alfred Gross man, 41, who has written three other novels in the same vein, has been praised for his facility with a special, caviar kind of black humor that only the hip can hope to fully understand. Actually, The Do-Gooders is a variation of Terry Southern's amoral, completely antisocial Magic Christian, but it is also disastrously lacking in Southern's wild, anarchistic imagination...
...Communist side, there is a starchy general, complete with well-lit villa, Citroën limousine and champagne and caviar to seduce the willowy government agent; even the Viet Cong would find that amusing. On the U.S. side, Wayne's self-conscious heroes penetrate into the Communist-base area by parachute and then traipse through forests that are obviously south of the Mason-Dixon line rather than...
...expenses, since the Danish capital is a popular tourist spot. With one Russian visiting the U.S. for every seven Americans visiting Russia, Pan Am hopes to have a clear edge over the Soviet government-owned airline. Still, the Russians are expected to make the going great with vodka-caviar treats aboard IL-62 jets on the New York run. If so, this may lure away a number of prospective Pan American customers who would rather eat than sleep. "On a prestige flight like this," muses a Pan Am official, "who knows what Aeroflot will do?" Says Aeroflot...
...away his sentence forging $120,000 worth of payment orders for goods the prison never received. During a three-year term for armed robbery in Nice, he suffered a convenient heart attack and wound up living it up in the prison ward of a local hospital. He passed out caviar to his nurses, champagne to his guards, and threw an elaborately catered foie gras party for the whole hospital staff. Then, one night, he staged an equally elaborate escape: after sawing through the bars of his window (to throw police off the track), Aunay put on a fresh suit...