Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story, which transpires at a Caribbean resort amid plastic palmettos and other touches of tropical realism, can best be described as follows: zzzzzzz. The players are equally interesting. Nancy Kwan, who claims to be a genuine Eurasian, looks like an American chorine with Scotch-taped eyelids. Jill St. John, who considers herself a comedienne, puts up a good front. Robert Goulet, whose talent is for singing, doesn't sing. And Keenan Wynn, who has probably been in worse pictures, looks as if he can't remember when...
...blonde baby girl, abandoned in the U.N. lobby. "You've got the wrong man," burbles Bob. "I didn't even go to the Christmas party." Nevertheless he takes the tyke home to his bachelor flat, powders her with confectioners' sugar, fastens her diapers with Scotch tape, and warms her milk in an empty fifth. Meanwhile, back at U Thant's East River headquarters, an international incident begins to boil. Seems all 111 member nations want to claim the foundling for their very own and are eager to give it the best of all possible homelands...
...only other consuming ambition was to see the movie Ben Hur. It was not showing anywhere in London, so his British hosts thoughtfully took him to see How the West Was Won instead. The West has yet to win Sergei. Given a free shot of whisky at a Scotch distillery, he grimaced: "No, no. Too strong, I prefer dry Georgian wine." But he finished...
...prewar vintage returned to the streets after years of exile in garages. Czechoslovakia's railroads, once among the best in Central Europe, today are the worst, and their coal-burning engines add to the gritty smog that cloaks the capital. In Prague's restaurants and bars, Scotch and French cognac sell for $2.50 an ounce. Tipping is simple: all waiters want is a few American cigarettes...
...Laotian walking stick. He received a hug and kiss from Half Brother Souphanouvong, himself resplendent in a most unproletarian two-button suit with a bigger pearl stickpin. Paunchy Soldier Phoumi thought it more appropriate to wear combat fatigues. The trio conferred for an hour, broke for box lunches and Scotch airlifted in from Vientiane...