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...people who are interested in American drinking habits-and enjoy arguments about statistics-the latest edition of the liquor industry's Handbook brought some more or less momentous information. The bourbons still reign over all (two to one over Scotch), but vodka, the biggest new "white liquor," passed gin last year, 12.9 million to 12.4 million cases. The Handbook's charts show that vodka hasn't a chance until 1973, if then. Then there's rum. Terrific growth-up 54% in the past five years...
...against what Chairman David Powell, who succeeded Sir Jock, calls "the hazards of tropical agriculture." Thus the company has bought controlling interest in the works of such British authors as John and Penelope Mortimer, Gavin Lyall, Francis Clifford and Robert Bolt (A Man For All Seasons). Now, in its latest acquisition, Booker has signed on an author every bit as big as Ian Fleming. For an amount it refuses to disclose, the company has acquired 51% of everything published since 1955 by famed Mystery Writer Agatha Christie...
...result of exporting basic products-bananas, coffee, cacao-whose prices are in decline. The fiscal situation is also bad. Capital is lacking. Political passions have racked the country for 30 years." Since Velasco's overthrow in 1961, Ecuador has had four impotent caretaker governments, including the latest one under Arosemena...
Should a small-town doctor be held to the same medical standards in a malpractice suit as his counterpart in the big city? Traditionally, the answer has been no, but with the new ease of communication, the so-called "locality" rule is changing. Massachusetts is the latest state to abandon the old standard. The ruling came in the case of a smalltown anesthesiologist accused of having given an excessive dose of a painkiller to a pregnant woman, thereby causing partial paralysis of her left leg. While noting that the lack of medical resources in a small town could be taken...
...number of standing committees generally has increased in recent years, according to Dean Ford, mainly because more groups of Faculty members have been coming forward with ideas for new instructional programs that cross the lines of existing Harvard departments. Folklore and Mythology is the latest example...