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Scotch consumption in France was held down by miniscule import quotas until 1960. But in 1961 the French imported 841,459 gal., and by the end of this year will have drunk considerably more. Cognac, however, is not on the rocks: during the same period its worldwide sales jumped from about 9 million to some 13 million bottles...
Straight from the Shoulder. The cheering audience called the three soloists, Conductor Colin Davis and Composer Britten back for repeated bows. Relaxing backstage with a leather-bound flask of cognac in hand, Composer Britten explained that he had not conducted the score himself because he was suffering from the mysterious psychogenic shoulder disorder that "happens to me only after I've finished a big work." And the Mass, he might have added, is one of the biggest works of his career. "It has been boiling up inside me for years," said Britten. "I had to find a language simple...
...network, which plugged the Gaullist line even in news broadcasts, limited each opposition speaker to ten minutes, and a sternly ticking time clock was shown before the speaker began and when he had ended. The performances were enough to drive a televiewer into the kitchen for another shot of cognac-if he did not switch off the set entirely...
Ladies swish and titter in rooms once sacrosanct to cognac and cigars. Clubs that once disdained "activities" now stage musical evenings, lectures, seminars and even dances to lure members and their guests to the board and bar. Membership rolls have been expanded while services have been curtailed; a drink costs as much as or more than it does at the restaurant around the corner, and many a club member is doing well to get a ham sandwich on a summer weekend...
...inflated cost, lobbied successfully against establishing domestic rivals. Factory managers boosted wages by a staggering 23%, went on a buying spree for foreign machinery for which the National Bank had to shell out scarce hard currency. At the same time, relaxed import barriers flooded Belgrade shops with French cognac, Italian shoes and other fancy consumer goods that the economy could not afford...