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...clubs and wedding receptions, and even on the screen, it is increasingly difficult to find anyone with a stiff drink in his hand. Sighs Restaurateur Duke Zeibert, who recently began carrying Moussy nonalcoholic beer from Switzerland at his famed Washington watering hole: "I'm from the old school of Scotch and soda and bourbon and water, but you just don't hear that much anymore. There's been a big turnaround...
...tells it like it is, who grabs for gusto, who damns the torpedoes and plunges full speed ahead. He is a high- strung, stand-up guy, the consummate can-do guy, a guy who enjoys spending time in the company of other guys: duck hunting in Canada, drinking Scotch with Frank Sinatra at Manhattan's "21" Club, hanging around the Yankee dugout during spring training...
...conservatively cut suits, smiled and joked, and was fast on his feet in a way that led one British journalist to compare him to "a successful lawyer or banker from the Midwest." It seemed a repeat of what one U.S. official called the "Andropov syndrome--that the man drank Scotch and wore cuffs on his pants...
There is one major difference between the elusive Andropov and Gorbachev. While KGB disinformers spread tantalizing tales about Andropov's taste for Scotch, Benny Goodman and Western pulp fiction, the former chief of the Soviet intelligence services remained the shadowy figure he had always been. Andropov, throughout his life, never traveled to the West and was seen only from afar at Kremlin ceremonies. Gorbachev, in contrast, is responsible for creating his own image abroad. He has what one Washington Kremlinologist calls "a real sense of public relations...
...Mexico and Oregon have statutes that are similar in effect. Kelly, 31, armed with the court's ruling, went to trial last week to recover damages for her broken ankle and facial injuries. Her attorney argued that Gwinnell had downed the equivalent of 13 1 1/2-oz. shots of Scotch during his 90-minute visit; the Zaks, he said, had "poured and poured and poured." Before any witnesses could testify, the insurance companies settled. Kelly will get a total of $172,500, $100,000 of it from Gwinnell's insurance company, the rest from the Zaks'. Says Kelly: "If the whole...