Word: cognac
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...dinner party on Manhattan's fashionable East Side included all the chic refreshments. It began with perfectly mixed martinis, followed by a fine vintage French wine with the main course. With dessert, guests puffed the finest marijuana. Then, after coffee and cognac, the young hostess presented the evening's piece de resistance: a glass jar filled with a white powder. "Would anybody like a hit of coke?" she inquired casually, as if offering another drink. Indeed they would. Recalls one of the guests: "I was so wrecked by the time I left that I could barely find...
...hitched a ride there one day with a French pilot-one of a bunch with great joie devivre who never took off without their morning coffee and cognac. A big sign with a picture of Mickey Mouse holding a rifle stood in the center of town. It pointed left to Paris (12,672 kilometers) and right to Peking (2,971 kilometers). Past that sign came an unending stream of peasants trudging back to China after selling their farm produce in the markets. The French were convinced that the Chinese peasants were smuggling in weapons, but were unable to stop...
...clean up the streets. In the central market there are baskets of bananas, lettuce flown in from Dalat, fresh oranges from Cambodia. A new air-conditioned hotel has just opened, and despite the withdrawal of American G.I.s, Danang's restaurants still offer Johnny Walker Scotch and Courvoisier Cognac...
...appearances are deceptive. Hardly anyone can afford to drink scotch or cognac any more. The oranges and lettuce often perish unsold. A shoemaker complains: "There are never any customers. I have ten children, and I have to spend at least 1,000 piasters [$2.50] a day to feed them. I can't afford a bowl of soup for lunch...
...Strangely, the government accepted the rumors without checking them and gave out the good news (see THE PRESS). The world prematurely rejoiced. Even Willy Brandt went to bed shortly afterward convinced that his men had scored a triumph. In Jerusalem, Israelis celebrated and Mrs. Meir opened a bottle of cognac, ready to propose a toast...