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Cake sales and community dances brought assembly-men and city councilors before the local public. Clubs, women's luncheon groups, and cocktail party statesmen served notice on the Democratic machine that they were tired of grubby candidates the calibre of Jimmy Roosevelt and Richard Graves. Years '52-'56 were the years of building, the hours of the amateur and the liberal, November mornings with young men like Richard Richards. Issues became important...
...women get reeling drunk on a couple of drinks while others can swig a fifth and not show it. Also, a man who has been putting away half a dozen highballs every evening for years without batting an eyelash may suddenly find himself getting the staggers after one cocktail...
Inconsistent sensitivity to alcohol in a supposedly normal individual may be an aftereffect of infectious disease, Dr. Meerloo notes. Or it may follow exhaustion or starvation. A probable precipitant is the combination of a potent cocktail with some protein (just what, no one knows) in the canapés. Battle fatigue and anxiety neurosis have been shown to make victims react violently to a soothing drink or drugs. In several cases that Dr. Meerloo has seen, he suspects that intense fear altered the subjects' metabolism completely. It may be, he suggests, that any kind of stress, including the fear...
...long desired: a foothold for Russia?however uncertain it might be?in the Middle East. He proved the foothold's reality by a war scare that set the world's nerves on edge, creating it with one brash rocket-rattling threat against Turkey, then dispelling it with one cocktail-party crack as soon as his pro-Communists had consolidated their control of Syria. More than any other man, Nikita Khrushchev dominated 1957's news and left his mark?for good or evil?on history...
...nobody cared. But 48 hours later she had MGM's top brass in a corporate rattle, and into her lap had fallen a tentative offer of the juiciest part the studio had to offer. And how did she do it? She went to a cocktail party...