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...bartender must be able to show in his receipts the equivalent of the price of 20.5 drinks for each fifth bottle of liquor sold. Most distillers offer cut-rate prices to get their brands into hotels and motels, but Holiday Inns goes one better: it buys bourbon and Scotch in bulk from Schenley at substantial savings and sells it under the Holiday Inns brand. Last year the company saved another bundle with volume buying by issuing a single order for 40,000 Motorola television sets. Cutting costs extends to the smallest things, like using nonwrinkle sheets to save on pressing...
LIQUOR. Returning U.S. citizens are limited by customs to one quart of duty-free spirits per person, so it hardly ever makes sense to buy more than that amount of hard liquor. But wines and other low-alcohol drinks are taxed at a much lower rate than, say, Scotch. Thus lovers of good sherry, port or Bordeaux might find it worthwhile to lug more than one bottle back to the U.S. Oddly enough, local libations are not necessarily cheapest at home: Beefeater gin sells for $3.80 a quart at London's Heathrow Airport, but for only $2.50 at Paris...
THAT WHIRRING NOISE you hear is Kurt Weill spinning in his grave. When he and Bertolt Brecht wrote Threepenny Opera, Happy End, and Mahagonny, they never dreamed that their operas would be performed in the ballroom of the Somerset Hotel, in front of a group of Scotch-sipping, fur-clad, overstuffed suburbanites. The producers of September Song have done to Weill exactly what Brecht complained had been done to Billy's Bawd House in Balbao: "They've made it bourgeois...
...Market tax laws, and the Eurocrats are of a mind to act-either by barring the shops to passengers traveling between Market countries, or by imposing a limit (perhaps $150) on duty-free purchases. But no one needs to fear a quick disappearance of $3.50 per quart Cutty Sark Scotch (at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport) or Gauloises at $1.75 a carton (at Paris' Orly). Market officials will not act at all before the end of 1973, if then...
...more. Ibsen brought Nora Helmer out of her doll's house in 1879. and succeeding generations have invented her anew: in Shaw's drawing-room heroines, Laurentian sensualists, Brett Ashleys, flappers, women who smoked and drank and swore and brushed their teeth with last night's Scotch, got divorced or did not bother to get married at all, wore pants, and perhaps in the mellow suburban '50s, lived to grow old as Auntie Mame...