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...midway through the book, as the war ceases to be a game, there is a change in Aten's tone. The retreat becomes a vastly sobering experience: "the refugee trains inched and shuttled and rocketed by. We sat warm and cozy and full of hot buttered rum--and ashamed." Aten's war does not sound like cowboys and Indians any more. The second part of the book is infinitely better than the first--had each section been written immediately after the events it describes transpired, the change in style would add to an impression that Aten aged a great deal...
...doors. Armed guards stood in the halls, telephone calls were banned, a Swiss embassy representative was turned away. But no one was harmed, and next day the Americans were permitted to return to Miami in a regularly scheduled Pan American DC-6. Now their luggage included cartons of Cuban rum emblazoned: "Let's go to Cuba-the friendly island next door...
...frozen fresh daiquiri mix (Don the Beachcomber) in a 6-oz. can from which twelve daiquiris can be made by adding ice and rum. Price...
PALINDROMES: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama; Piel's lager on red rum did murder no regal sleep...
Reagan argued that the Federal Government was running "more than 19,000 businesses covering 47 lines of activity-from rum distilling to the manufacture of surgical equipment. Operating tax free, dividend free and rent free in direct competition with its own citizens, the Government loses billions each year in the businesses." Once in business, Reagan noted, the Government is reluctant to get out: "Congress ordered the liquidation of the Spruce Products Corp. in 1920, but 30 years later it was still in existence. The corporation was founded in World War I to find spruce wood for airplane frames...