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...Gulfport, Miss. motel last week cruised a Pontiac station wagon. There the owner unloaded a wondrous array of equipment: an indoor barbecue set and an outdoor barbecue set, a box of charcoal and a box of pots and pans, cocktail glasses, an ice chest, a bottle of gin, a bottle of bourbon, a bottle of blended whisky, two deck chairs, four books about the stock market, a rack of record albums, a set of golf clubs, crab nets, a Coleman lamp for flounder fishing, a football, two tennis rackets, playing cards, a hi-fi set, beach sandals, a straw...
...Gin & Ginger. From beginning to end, said their guide, the Russians behaved like "schoolboy tourists." There were minor difficulties, of course. Pavel Erofeev, administrative secretary of the Union of Soviet Journalists, and the delegation's pin-money treasurer, refused to convert his $3,000 expense-money draft into traveler's checks, demanded cash (he got it). Teetotaler Erofeev also had transcontinental trouble ordering the soft drink recommended by Teetotaler Salisbury; Erofeev kept asking for ginger ale, but his hosts, misinterpreting his basic English, kept bringing him gin rickeys and gin-and-tonic. "The Russians were charmed by Disneyland...
Goldwater particularly criticized the present Administration tendency to tell the American people to "just go on with your gin rummy, work hard, and make the money so we can take it away from you and spend it on things you never said you wanted...
...Information Service in The Netherlands called in a group of influential Dutch editors for a seminar to explain the significance of last November's elections. After the first day's lectures, USIS hosts explained that guests could have two beers or two glasses of Dutch gin at the embassy's expense. That night at dinner, waiters began serving two slices of meat to guests, but stopped halfway through to take one slice away from the plates already served. Under John Rooney's representation allowance, the budget for the dinner permitted one slice of meat...
...Hollywood, perhaps even more than in Manhattan, going out to lunch is a rite and an art, and in such gin-filled aquariums as the Brown Derby and Romanoff's, the tab frequently exceeds what a strong man could earn in a month delivering milk or teaching high school algebra. But last week it seemed that matters had gotten out of hand. Spyros Skouras, the sovereign lord of 20th Century-Fox, had summoned Writer-Producer-Director Leslie Stevens to a staff lunch. Stevens, whose Daystar Corp. forms a powerful fealty under the Skouras fief, sent a proxy, and Skouras...