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...steel imports. Most of the blame for increased imports, however, can be placed on the seemingly insaliable U.S. consumer, who continues to spend despite increased taxes and the inflation-diminished dollar. Over the first nine months of this year, imports gained 31% in clothing, 32% in whisky (mainly Scotch), 49% for radios and television sets. Excluding duty-free trade with Canada, auto imports have soared by 70%, or $430 million. Chartener sums up the whole problem in what has become an almost generic phrase: "It's those Volkswagens...
...under-21 crowd will soon be sipping Shirley Temples instead of scotch and soda in the Hasty Pudding...
...asked her largely student audience, "What are you going to do with your lives? Are you going to be on the side of Che Guevara or of McNamara? Are you going to join the movement, or will your life be one of quiet desperation, drowned out by Black Label scotch and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation...
...wanderings, Onassis is only a superficial sophisticate. His humor has a peasant strain. One of his favorite jokes describes "the noisiest thing in the world?two skeletons making love on a tin roof." A hardheaded Scotch drinker (only at night), he has smashed upwards of $700 worth of crockery in bouzouki establishments, and has been known to snore in a La Scala opera box during a Callas première. Even his fellow Greek shipping kings long dismissed him as a crude upstart. Says one acquaintance: "He was trash to some Greeks, the way old Joe Kennedy was trash to some...
...Girl: "A Scotch...