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...handshaking tour to kick off his campaign. It was raining buckets that day, but Rocky plodded gamely on, sometimes through ankle-deep mud. Despite the storm, he found hundreds of hands to shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda in a drugstore. In Nashua he visited a Methodist church, and devoured a steak in a restaurant while a crowd stood outside in the rain and peered at him through the window. In Manchester he bought a pair of overshoes while photographers recorded the purchase...
...record player: Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Chopin. A fair pianist himself -he once hoped to become a conductor -he tolerates nothing modern. His watchword: ''Not one step beyond Strauss" (he means Richard, not Franz Josef). As he listens, he sips a long, cool Scotch and soda ("a habit I picked up from the Americans") and inevitably puffs a cigar. "Lulu, you are smoking too much," Luise chides now and then...
...French land holdings, whose owners had paid better wages than does the government, was far from popular, and no one seemed to think that Algeria's economic misery would be solved by last week's nationalization of 43 butcher shops, 30 bakeries, and several ice-cream and soda-pop factories. The crowds that turned out to hear his speeches were notably unenthusiastic...
...Barnum tradition are asked to crowd in close and watch single acts performed in a small single ring. Whole tiers of the high seats at Madison Square Garden are deliberately left unsold. There is no parade. There are no spangled multitudes. There are no barkers, and even the soda-peanut-popcorn hawkers are forbidden to hustle during the acts. Intimacy is the effect the Russians want...
...later, when Illia and friends pushed back from the 600 long tables, they had done quite a bit of conspicuous consuming: 25,000 meat pie appetizers, 40 whole roasted calves, 40 chickens, 150 lambs, 8,800 loaves of bread and numberless pounds of fresh fruit, 22,000 bottles of soda pop, 600 bottles of beer and 11,000 bottles of red wine. The marvel was that only ten people fell ill with what the medics called "gastric prostration." "The very quantity," mused Buenos Aires' daily Clarin, "leads one to forget for a moment the notion that 'Argentina...