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...fact, I often feel like Batman without the wham zow- Batman in retirement behind the desk, handing out the scissors and scotch tape necessary to keep up the life flow. But retirement at age 22? Clearly unacceptable...
Captain Aubrey Daniel III, the 29-year-old Army captain who chastised the Commander in Chief, did not gloat over his courtroom "victory," a term he abhors. At a party shortly after the verdict, when the intense, tight-lipped attorney finally relaxed with a bottle of Scotch, his guitar and a group of friends, he sadly conceded: "When human lives are involved, there is never a winner...
...year-old Ballantine's Scotch that he consumed in moderate rations (down from the half quart a day of former times) ever dull his tart, epigrammatic wit. Conductors, critics and colleagues regularly felt its sting. Stravinsky once said of Leopold Stokowski that "he must have spent an hour a day trying to find the perfect bisexual hairdo." He called New Yorker Music Critic Winthrop Sargeant "W.S. Deaf." Of a new Gian Carlo Menotti opera, he said, "It is 'farther out' than anything I've seen in a decade; in the wrong direction, of course." He also...
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...pronounced the flavor. The whisky executives, led by Haefelin, argued that spirits distilled between 160 and 190 proof, as the lights are, still had enough taste to be called whisky. They also contended that the flavor would improve if this whisky were allowed to mature in used casks-like Scotch and Canadian whisky-rather than the new ones required for bourbon and rye. In 1968, the Government gave in to the industry on both counts, and the distillers began the four-year process of aging their light whisky. One side benefit: by ripening the whisky in used casks the distillers...