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Author Phillips has produced a keg of potent Southern discomfort recommended only to those who agree that "the weight of a matter depends on the heaviness of the heart...
...Love Your Work." August Anheuser Busch Jr., fourth in a 90-year family line to head the brewery, does not fear this competition; he thrives on it. Trim (5 ft. 10 in., 164 lbs.), greying, hard as an oaken keg at 56, Gussief Busch operates on a simple formula: "Work hard-love your work." Whether at his baronial suburban home or his main brewery sprawling alongside the Mississippi River in South St. Louis, he spends most of his waking hours selling beer. He rarely talks in a normal voice; he sounds more like a hoarse lion...
...been wined by queens, dined by prime ministers, taken tiger-hunting by a maharaja. His uniforms have grown gaudier and bigger over the paunch, his laugh more easy. Anthony Eden, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adlai Stevenson have called on him. He has called on Queen Elizabeth, presented a keg of slivovitz to Winston Churchill. He has exchanged toasts with the Queen of Greece, been feted at the Dolmabaghche palace in Ankara, which he had last visited as an agent of international Communism traveling with a forged passport. He has traveled to India to see Nehru, to Burma to confer with...
...enigma in the skein of enigma that is Berlin. Berlin offers a kind of excitement to be found nowhere else in Europe. Here, the individual is suppressed by the ruin, the streams of propaganda from both sides, and by the constant awareness that he is sitting on a powder keg...
...cease-fire arranged by the U.N.? The President's answer: "Well. I should like to see the United Nations attempt to exercise its good offices. I believe, because wherever there is any kind of fighting and open violence in the world . . . it is always sort of a powder keg. Whether the United Nations could do anything in this particular place, I don't know, because probably each side would insist that it was an internal affair...