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Lush Market. With its U.S. Scotch profits, Justerini & Brooks can afford to treat its British wine customers in Bond Street fashion. At its Georgian-style shop, a customer is greeted with a glass of dry sherry and made to feel, as one well-aged J. & B. executive puts it, that "we have all the time in the world and want to spend it only with him. If a customer wishes, we will gladly spend an hour discussing the relative merits of Romanée-Conti and the first growth of Bordeaux...
Going into the final round-the last 18 holes of the last day's grueling 36-Littler was three strokes behind lanky Georgian Doug Sanders, 27, the only man shooting par golf. A dozen others were so close that the Open was still a scramble. Burly Mike Souchak seemed to be hot, birdied the first hole of the last round to tie Sanders, but faded to a 284 and a fourth-place tie with blond, brawny Jack Nicklaus, top Amateur in the tournament...
...Methodists, they tend more and more to pick their churches because they are within walking distance, or because their friends go there, or because they like the preacher-all too few care passionately about doctrinal differences between the limestone church with stained glass, the spired white clapboard and the Georgian brick. Typical is a Hollywood man whose parents were Lutherans and then Methodists; he became a Presbyterian "because the bass soloist's position was open...
Said one official who has seen the plans: "It sure ain't Georgian...
...religious broadcasts over five giant "curtain antennas" that reach across Asia to the Pacific. Broadcasts in the other direction-to Spain-carry on to Latin America. The Gospel message is carried in Russian, Spanish, Latvian, Hebrew, Arabic, Swedish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian and German. Within three months, Armenian, Georgian and Uzbek will be added; within a year, Chinese and Hindustani. And the Soviets have never tried...