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...live mike. "I got the farts again, Charlie," Young was heard to say. "I think it's acid in the stomach." He blamed it on the large doses of potassium-spiked orange juice prescribed by doctors to counteract the effects of weightlessness (see MEDICINE). The strange potion did not seem to bother him on the second moon walk, when the astronauts took more core samples, picked up rocks, and pushed over a large boulder to collect soil from underneath it (so scientists can compare the effects of cosmic-ray bombardment on varying soil samples). They drove the rover several...
...inevitably a physical defect that Feydeau manages to make howlingly funny rather than mockingly cruel. This time there is a stone-deaf lady (Helen Burns), who is being taken to Carmen for a treat, after which her medical-officer husband (Tony Van Bridge) intends to mix her a sleeping potion to celebrate the couple's 25th wedding anniversary. There is always a foreign couple (Swedish, in this case) who come in for some sexual kidding, because Feydeau could not hope to get a laugh from a French audience by casting any aspersions on Gallic sexual prowess...
Tristan (Jess Thomas) and Isolde (Birgit Nilsson) down their love potion on the deck of a palpably realistic ship. Suddenly they are obscured by swirling clouds, as if seen through a delicatessen window on a cold day. Later, in a dense, lushly tropical garden, they embrace, then shoot skyward via an elevator. They float among color-slide-projected stars, perch on the solid-looking edge of a planet examining a literal representation of the sun's corona, finally end their galactic tour by strolling across what seems to be an asteroid before ending up again in their dank garden...
Last week Tamil Nadu suspended prohibition, and toddy shops were licensed to brew the potion again. But after so long a time, they could round up few able tappers. Those who remained took advantage of the situation, demanding, and getting, daily wage increases of from 41? to $1.33. They also received such unheard-of fringe benefits as salary advances, insurance, medical care, brick houses to live in instead of mud and straw huts, and profit sharing...
Diamond Lil and Moby Dick. Distillers are already clashing over the market for lights. Brown-Forman got Government approval to bring out a new light drink this year-a clear-as-vodka, 80-proof potion called "white whisky." The drink, named Frost 8/80, is distilled at more than 160 proof, then filtered through hardwood, softwood and nutshell charcoal to make it colorless. Schenley, National Distillers and American Distilling have brought suit -so far unsuccessfully-to halt the marketing of Frost 8/80. They accuse Brown-Forman of jumping the gun on their spirits of '72 and of causing confusion that...