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...swim, four out of ten bowl and the same number play golf, and 34% belong to a country club or other sporting club. And TIME families are hospitable, too. In the two weeks before the questionnaires were sent, 74% entertained guests in their home; 81% serve liquor, with Scotch, gin, bourbon and vodka the preferred drinks...
...interested in opera. Their first night at the Met, a pair of opera glasses fell out of a box above them and hit Gimbel on the foot. "If that had been my head, I would have been killed," he said. "Opera is too dangerous." Instead he settled for gin rummy, frequent trips to nearby race tracks with such intimates as Toymaker Louis Marx, and daily sessions at the Biltmore Hotel steam baths, where Gimbel, even as a septuagenarian, impressed friends by swimming the 35-ft. length of the pool underwater...
Dutch workers have spent their extra pay on high living. Per-capita TV purchases are higher in The Netherlands than almost anywhere else in Europe. Per-capita consumption of jenever, the Dutch gin, and of beer and wine has jumped 50% . AMSTERDAM SWINGS Too, boasted a Dutch newspaper, reporting the Carnaby Street look among the city's towheaded boys and miniskirted girls. Demand for consumer goods has set trade figures whirling like windmills. A Dutch surplus of $14 million in trade with West Germany during the first half of 1965 has turned into a $74 million edge...
...Pennsylvania Dutch country. It also succeeds in the tricky business of interweaving the self-questioning of a troubled young father undergoing analysis with a description of the significance of the Eucharist. At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie could easily have been just another set piece about a raffish gin mill in which just about every type turns up but the anonymous and unseen narrator. Actually, it is a tense little moral essay on true and false innocence, demonstrated in terms of a hat with dancing birds on it. The hat has been made by a homosexual for a fancy-dress...
...board rooms. In The Suicide of a Nation?, Writer and Critic Goronwy Rees reported attending a regular directors' meeting of an engineering company outside London. "The office was richly furnished with thick carpets, an Annigoni painting, and extremely expensive antique furniture. Deliberations were sweetened by drafts of gin and tonic drunk out of beakers of cut glass. The discussion followed no conceivably rational pattern; a large part of it was taken up by the sales director's amatory reminiscences of the world capitals he had most recently visited. There were frequent interruptions, by telephone, from the directors...