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...force treaty would pave the way toward progress in the Big Four talks on Berlin. In an unusually cordial gesture, Gromyko invited Scheel for the weekend to his dacha outside Moscow. Shucking their coats and settling down in wicker chairs, the two men reviewed their negotiations while sipping tea, cognac and kvass, and ended the evening swapping hunting stories...
...dying of cancer in Spain. In Madrid, El Lider insists that his doctors give him "at least 20 more working years." Looking chipper as ever despite surgery last month, Perón, 74, received newsmen with his 39-year-old wife at their mansion and announced over cognac: "We are going to go, Isabelita and I, for a week to the beach, to rest and to celebrate my funeral...
...seller at the bar at the Houston Press Club was a little something called "The Moonshot" (two ounces of cognac, three ounces of orange juice, and three ounces of champagne). The concoction was so mesmerizing that many hours later one flight controller was still muttering, to anyone still around to listen, "Don't forget that behind me there were eight other good men the public never saw. Just remember, that behind me were eight...
Surprisingly, local products are often the least attractive buys of all because of local taxes-or because shrewd sellers reckon that in-transit passengers will think that a local product is obviously a bargain at any price. A quart of V.S.O.P. cognac, $5 at Ireland's Shannon airport, costs $6.30 at Paris' Orly. In Belgrade, a bottle of "Manastrika" slivovitz is $2.50 at the airport and $1.50 in town. Thousands of passengers eagerly buy watches at Swiss airports, where they are not duty-free and cost about 10% more than at downtown watchmakers. German-made cameras, tape recorders...
...very generous, considering how these people live," says one officer. "I would even say overgenerous." Even so, the U.S. apparently feels that something more is still owed. Washington has offered to donate a $150,000 desalinization plant to the village for drinking water. With plenty of coffee, wine and cognac on hand, Palomares wants a bigger unit to provide water for irrigation. The plant in any case is yet to be built; the Spanish government, which owns a nearby beach-front inn where the drinking water is also brackish, has decided to build a large plant to serve the entire...