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...glad to see the businessman's switch to lighter drinks at lunch; it may lead to a return of business in the afternoon, and who knows what this may do to the economy...
...Campari. A growing number of businessmen are fighting the post-luncheon haze by switching to such lighter-spirited European drinks as Lillet Orange (Lillet vermouth, soda, a slice of orange), the Americano (Campari, Cinzano dry vermouth, soda) or just plain Campari and soda. Sangria, a Spanish punch combining red or white wine with fruit syrup and seltzer, has made a host of converts at Manhattan's new Fountain Cafe in Central Park. And, though it really caught on in Paris only this summer, a surprising number of U.S. bartenders have already learned to whip up "un Kir": a mixture...
...more perplexed or perturbed by this phenomenon than the President. Two years ago, on his way to the greatest popular landslide in history-helping meanwhile to pull Bobby into the Senate on his coattails-Lyndon Johnson's pockets fairly bulged with favorable polls. Now he travels lighter, for the surveys bear uniformly bad tidings for himself and for Vice President Hubert Humphrey. In Minnesota, in California, in Iowa, in Michigan, Bobby is outpolling the President by margins as large as 2 to 1, and the Vice President by even more. When
...infra-red recordings also seem to rule out the theory that comets are composed primarily of ice and dust. Ikeya-Seki's high temperatures could have occurred only if it contained large amounts of metallic material. Most of the comet's lighter-weight chemical elements were probably boiled away during a previous close approach to the sun. The scientists also measured the total amount of energy Ikeya-Seki radiated before and after it swung around the sun; they calculated that it lost 65% of its mass and broke into two pieces...
...Northern cousin, the New York Times, while the Free Press speaks for its conservative, segregationist publisher, Grocer Roy McDonald, 64. What disturbed McDonald was that he thought the Times spent far too much space and money on national and international coverage, while he concentrated on local events in a lighter fashion at less expense. Why should he pay for half the cost of printing presidential speeches verbatim? Replied a Timesman: "We paid for half the Cub Scout pictures in the Free Press...