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...Recipe: preheat a six-ounce glass with very hot water. Empty and refill the glass three-fourths full of hot, black, strong coffee. Add three cubes of sugar and stir until dissolved. Add a full jigger of Irish whisky and float whipped cream...
...bottle and jigger...
Nixon himself will be remembered in Haiti for another' talent. Sugar-rich Haiti has long smarted because President Paul Magloire prefers whisky to rum. During a formal reception last week, Dick Nixon waved photographers away, took President Magloire aside and showed him how a jigger of Haitian rum, a half teaspoon of sugar, soda water and plenty of squeezed lime juice make a wonderful rum collins...
...Germany) and possessor of a biting intellectual intensity. Said he: "I read every work Harold Laski wrote. I worshiped him for years. Then I realized I was wrong. Now I am back on more solid ground." What had wrought the change? Paik downed the equivalent of half a jigger of Four Roses whisky from a cracked porcelain cup, chased it with a handful of warm pine nuts, and went on: "Many of my former friends are now with the Communists in the north. I almost went with them. Now I know why they-and very nearly myself-were wrong...
...Wilbur Daniel Steele, 65, who rejoices in being a reactionary and flavorful old fogy. Like Conrad and Maugham, he prefers to clamp a character in the vise of a strange situation, watch him wriggle toward nobility, degradation, or death. At his best, Author Steele can stir a jigger of irony, a dash of adventure, a sprig of the exotic and a pinch of mystery into a tippling good yarn. At his worst, he makes the tricks of Fate look like the hoked-up tricks of the trade...