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...along the coast. In the north-coast town of Chimbote, the population has exploded from 5,000 to 150,000 in the past 20 years. New taxis clog the city's streets, and neon signs wink brightly all night; hi-fi shops blare out cha chas; Indian mopsters sip beer and lethal-looking, yellow-green "Inca Kolas" and fill up vacant walls with "Vivan los Beatles...
While 6,500 members queued up to sip interprandial Scotch and sup on cafeteria boeuf bourguignon, Director James J. Rorimer showed off a colonnaded Spanish Renaissance patio, donated by the late, former Met president George Blumenthal, and the new Thomas J. Watson library, whose 155,000 volumes make it the largest art-literature stack in the Western Hemisphere. Topping off his week, Rorimer received the city's Medallion of Honor from Mayor Wagner...
...decade ago to a record $136 million in the last fiscal year. Its boss is John G. Martin, 59, the British-born grandson of one of the original Heubleins, who owns 10% of the company (which he runs with the help of President Ralph Hart) and likes to sip Bell's twelveyear-old Scotch, another of the products that Heublein distributes...
...Humberto Castello Branco and his revolutionaries had dealt forcibly with the first two. Inflation is proving far more difficult. Nowhere in Latin America is inflation so deeply and strongly rooted -until it has become as much a part of Brazil as carnival and the inky cafè-zinho Brazilians sip at corner coffee bars...
Lukianov stuck to his prepared speech. He mentioned Premier Khrushchev only briefly during his talk, and his attitude seemed mildly humorous, not worried. Once he referred to "the late Premier Khrushchev," then grimaced and took a hurried sip of water. The listeners laughed and applauded. Later Lukianov mentioned "first secretary, who is it now, Brezhnev," and again drew laughter and applause...