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...just getting started, and some rough mileage stretches ahead. The ideal candidate would have to be a G.O.P.-style L.B.J., only with the charisma and the capacity to unify all factions and win an election. He would have to be something like the composite superfigure in the 100 Pipers Scotch ads-one with the party loyalty of a Taft, the looks of a Teddy Roosevelt, the tongue of a Lincoln, the humanitarianism of a Hoover, and the probity of an Eisenhower...
...only $2,100-about $600 less than on the mainland. Yet, since most staples must be imported, prices average 25% over those Stateside. Electric bills average $45 monthly, eggs cost 99? a dozen, soft drinks average 75? for a large bottle-making the soda as costly as the Scotch. Housing is astronomically high: a fair-sized lot with a modest home can run as high as $75,000. Bad roads are made even more hazardous for tourists by the custom of driving on the left. Water is so scarce that some areas are without for eight hours every night, although...
...loner, Mac developed a talent for unsparing self-analysis. For a while he dreamed of a political career. "I thought I would like to spend my life trying to bring about the things that Woodrow Wilson stood for," he says, "but my Scotch daddy set me straight. He said, 'You're too shy. Your brother Bill could do it, but you couldn't.' I thought about that for a while and decided he was right...
Fearing that the smoking-and-cancer scare may be hazardous to their fiscal health, cigarette makers have long been hedging their futures by tracking down merger opportunities. Lately, the trail has led to the package store. Liggett & Myers last year took over the U.S. importer of J & B Scotch whisky. American Tobacco bought nearly all of Chicago's James B. Beam Distilling Co. last fall, and will soon purchase control of the Buckingham Corp., importer of Cutty Sark Scotch. When its turn came, P. Lorillard Co. decided to try a little tippling...
...return the favor for Schenley, whose 1966 sales of $478 million were only 2% greater than in 1957. Once the leading U.S. distiller, Schenley was overtaken by aggressive Distillers Corp.-Seagrams after the war. None of its leading brands (among them: Schenley Reserve blended whisky, Dewar's Scotch, I. W. Harper bourbon) are now the top sellers in their fields...