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With the usual whiff of flackery, commuters making the maiden voyage were given life memberships in the Commuter Yacht Club, entitling them to be "piped aboard upon returning home after a hard day at the office; to demand inordinate quantities of lime in gin and tonic as a prevention against scurvy; to address the cruiser pilot as 'Mr. Christian.' " Burbled one enchanted voyager: "What's Venice got on Chicago...
...Fitzgerald put it in his notebook: "I left my capacity for hoping on the little roads that led to Zelda's sanitarium." By the '30s, Fitzgerald had lost his early conviction that "life was something you dominated if you were any good." He drowned himself in gin, lamenting "I haven't been able to enjoy myself. I would like a blank period...
...coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila, gin and vodka of local manufacture, adulterated whisky, and tiny bottles of beer that cost 50? apiece...
Sergeants 3 (EC; United Artists), the latest fresh-air outing for Frank Sinatra's gnat pack, may have come to pass like this: the Clan members had all been to the penny-fights and Aldershot it, and they were lying around Palm Springs or Vegas talking of gin and beer. Someone turned on the box, and there, on the Old Old Show, was the 1939 rouser Gunga Din, with Gary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Wouldn't it be a gas, someone else inquired, to remake Gunga Din with Sammy Davis Jr. as the water...
With the settlement in agriculture, the Common Market's Phase 2 is about to be gin, and will now lead irreversibly by Jan. 1, 1966 to reduction by at least 50% of all original duties, and by the end of its third phase, in 1970 at the present rate of progress, to final abolition of all remaining duties and quotas between the member states. Impressed by the agreement, Britain last week pressed with new confidence for Common Market membership, and the U.S. took a big step toward expanded trade with it (see THE NATION ). Said Konrad Adenauer...