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...Harry had gained six pounds and I had lost ten. After one three-hour discussion-in-depth with an editor of L'Osservatore Romano, our Rome correspondent, who had been doing the interpreting, turned toward me and fainted flat on the floor. Before I got a shot of Scotch into him, Harry was back in the room, saying: 'Well, it's only 6:15-what are we going to do until dinner...
...come in and said, I made a mistake,' things might have turned out differently." But throughout, Powell was being-Powell. While the House wrangled over his fate, he spent the afternoon playing dominoes in Bimini's End of the World bar, sipping "cowbells" (milk laced with Scotch) supplied by reporters. "If I'm excluded," he said philosophically, "I'll be happy all the time. If I'm not excluded, I'll be happy all the time...
...there is that painful moment when Mrs. Kennedy walked into the presidential bedroom and found Lyndon Johnson reclining on the bed dictating to a secretary. Later in his narrative, Manchester introduces another vignette: Jackie, while keeping vigil beside her husband's coffin, had the first two drinks of Scotch in her life. It tasted like creosote to her, he says...
...bird is more powerful than the Camaro (165 h.p. as compared with 140 h.p., though both offer optional 325-h.p. engines), will cost "a little more" than Camaro's $2,466 and come equipped with an inflatable spare tire that will save enough trunk space for an extra Scotch cooler. Called the Space-Saver, the spare takes up half as much room as an ordinary tire, can be inflated when needed with a Freon gas can. Developed by B. F. Goodrich, the minispare is guaranteed to last 1,000 miles, will retail at $32.80. Goodrich is also working...
...nation's second largest biscuit maker, in a $113 million stock swap. Last month it bought 96% control of Chicago's James B. Beam Distilling Co. for some $110 million. Two weeks ago, it agreed to buy 52.66% control of Buckingham Corp., which distributes Cutty Sark Scotch in this country, from Schenley for some $50 million. Last week Walker announced plans to buy prosperous Royal Crown Cola Co. in American's biggest deal...