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Grand Hotel. At a $75,000 white-tie party last week, the President formally opened the 400-room Hotel Tamanaco in the capital city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
...that could be sent to the U.S. is being efficiently produced by American competitors. While U.S. producers thrive on competition, most foreign businessmen shun it. Thus they tend to concentrate on basic commodities, semi-finished goods for special industrial use, or national specialties unlike any produced in the U.S.-Scotch whiskey, British woolens, French wines or Belgian lace...
...Yale Center of Alcohol Studies sits unobtrusively without any identification--squat but spacious like a bottle of Ballantine's scotch. Undoubtedly built in the 19th century, its four stories have mahogany-toned woodwork and a faded coat of yellow paint, which partially conceals stone, stucco, or something...
...damage suit filed against him by three people who were injured last month in a dawn collision with Bing's $12,250 Mercedes-Benz. Scoffing at a claim that he was drunk, Bing ticked off his liquor intake at a party he attended before the smashup: "Two Scotch and water drinks before dinner, champagne during dinner, two Scotches and water after dinner...
...stand, added ammunition to the ascetics' arsenal by writing: "It seems some people are more interested in the superficial outward graces that make up the educated Charlie and future man of the world. The ability to balance a drink at a party and be able to name a good scotch are very possibly attributes which every Charlie should know, but this is not the education that Princeton offers the applicant...