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...international traveler, touching down in some parts of the Muslim world, knows from experience not to expect a belt or two before bed-or before leaving, for that matter. Thus, at the cocktail hour, glumly clutching a glass brimming with the essence of a prune, the businessman is cross but not shocked. The domestic drummer, however, always appears to be caught short-and made bewildered-when the journey pauses for an evening in an American anachronism, the dry county. After all, this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Prohibition, and yet here and there across...
...social gatherings with his wife's suburban friends, he found himself in a beleaguered minority. He had grown up with guns; still owned two or three, now never actually used. But he moved in circles where guests tended to edge away at cocktail parties whenever he admitted that he wasn't entirely happy with the idea of living unarmed in a state where only cops and criminals have guns...
...addition to writing letters and soliciting from their usual sources. RCS has held several fund-raising events. In November the group held a telethon in which they raised over $15,000 A fundraising cocktail party at the New York City home of entertainer Kitty Carlisle Hart will be held in March...
...influence world events in the Soviet Union's favor through propaganda and disinformation, so-called active measures. Some of the KGB's more polished agents abroad have apparently been instructed in recent years to cultivate officials of their host governments and drop tantalizingly frank tidbits of information during cocktail-party chatter. Says former West German Counterespionage Officer Hans Josef Horchem: "They come right up to a man, knowing that he knows they are KGB, and with a wink of the eye, they calmly ask him about exactly what it is they want to know. It is disarming because the other...
...Davy the Fat Boy or Vine St. or even Sail Away. More likely they will be puckering their lips around one of the novelty numbers of comparatively recent vintage, like Short People. (Remember "Short people got no reason to live"?) Says the composer, who will have scarfed up the cocktail peanuts by this time and will likely be heading for home: "That song was a joke. It's about someone who is insane. Nobody harbors that kind of animus toward short people." Then, typically, he adds the cruncher: "Except...