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...Hell with It." It began in West Berlin in July 1957, after Airman Second Class Thompson, then 22, had been chewed out by his commanding officer because he needed a shave. That night Thompson drowned his resentment in cognac, brooded about his job as a clerk in the Office of Special Investigation at Berlin's Tempelhof Air Base. "You lived in a state of terror," he recalled. "Everyone in our office was watching someone. We all watched each other...
After 20 shots of cognac, Thompson "decided to hell with it." He walked into East Berlin wearing civilian clothes; no one checked his pass. He contacted Communist intelligence officers, said he wanted to defect. Three men questioned him for six hours in the sun porch of a private house overlooking a lake. Thompson was pretty drunk; the Soviets told him they didn't think he would be a good spy and sent him back...
...last week there was one blazing action in the waters off Cuba for which no one wanted to claim responsibility. It involved the 1,600-ton Spanish freighter Sierra Aranzazu, some 40 miles northwest of Great Tnagua Island in the Bahamas, bound for Havana with a cargo of garlic, cognac, chicken coops and plows...
...Cognac for Breakfast. The line now covers 12 countries in the Middle East, has also extended its routes beyond the Arab countries to London and Paris, Liberia and the Ivory Coast and east to India and Pakistan. Eventually, Alamuddin hopes, it will become the nucleus of a Pan-Arab airline. It carries 350,000 passengers annually, has helped to push
...does a big business in carrying Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem, yearly flies Moslem pilgrims from all over the Middle East to Jeddah, the closest airport to Mecca. Though the Koran forbids liquor, Sheik Alamuddin provides it on most flights. Parched Moslem passengers can often be seen downing Scotch or cognac as soon as the planes take to the air on Middle East's early-morning flights from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...