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Those who prefer martinis or soft drinks think beer drinkers are just a bunch of mugs. In fact, the true beer drinker is just as great a connoisseur as any sampler of Château Lafite. Beer tastings are a commonplace in almost every town that offers more than one beer to have when you're having more than one. In addition to domestic products, consumers check out the great German and Dutch prizewinners (some 6,000 local brews are available in those beer-loving nations), the Czech Pilsner, which many consider the world's finest, plus imports...
HORIZON (circ. 98,000; single copy, $2.50) has been around since 1958, but underwent such a face lift this year that any resemblance to the old, hardcover, quarterly coffee-table sampler of art and high culture is coincidental. The new Horizon will be a soft-cover monthly as of September, and light-years more lively. Artist Andrew Wyeth's naked Virgin was the cover of the May issue, and Dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry are whooping it up on the next issue. Inside the magazine are heavily illustrated essays on such trendy topics as discothèques, women...
Wherever she goes, Lily Tomlin takes her notebooks. And wherever she goes, she writes the maxims that zing through her act like ricocheting bullets. A sampler...
Mail has poured into the Carter transition headquarters by the bushel -more than 5,000 pieces in the first week. The Carter staff announced that the call had yielded over 300 "constructive" suggestions. A sampler...
...explosive in their own way. The package was crammed with secret CIA documents-papers detailing the agency's internal structure, the names and addresses of CIA officials and informants, and the locations of CIA "safe houses" and training sites. An unsigned note described the documents as merely a sampler. For $200,000, the Soviets would get additional secret papers and the names of CIA agents who might be vulnerable to seduction by the KGB. The note instructed the Soviets to make two payoffs-$3,000 to be dropped off at 2 p.m. the next day beside a fire hydrant...