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...gives a low-key, comic and rather appealing picture of "the Screwery," a band of romantic South American revolutionaries based in France. As the book commences, they are subverting the Establishment by filling new cigarette packages with burnt-out butts, and smuggling cartons of the fakes into bars and tobacco shops to be sold as the real thing. They progress to grimmer matters, among them the kidnaping of a South American police official...
Coke and Taylor immediately ran into trouble with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF), which must pass on all wine ads and frowns on most comparative advertising (advertis ing of beer and wine, but not liquor, is permitted on TV). BATF did not bar Taylor's promotions, but said that the winery ran them at its own risk. If the ads were found to be misleading, Taylor could face penalties ranging from a letter of admonishment to a suspension of its permit to sell wine interstate. Early this month, Coca-Cola officials decided to risk the consequences...
FAVORITE DRINK: Big Red Cowpuncher (6 ozs. Genesee beer, half-cup of fresh cream, jigger-full of tobacco juice, and a packet of unsweetened cherry Kool-Aid, with a twist...
Cigars passed. Help for those friendly tobacco growers? Few take them. Nobody lights one up. Everybody polite, muted by setting. Columnist Rowland Evans looking serious. Came to town under F.D.R. New Republic's John Osborne looming like Buddha at far end of five bouquets. Carter Aide Jerry Rafshoon looking pale. Been watching TV too much. Meet the Press's originator Lawrence Spivak smiling. Lone Woman Mary McGrory wants to know if she and the rest have been too tough on President. President believes so now and then, but is not going to press point in new aura. Jimmy...
...recent years, McDaniel devoted most of his time to collecting fossils and seashells near his homes in Coconut Grove, Fla. and Martha's Vineyard. He once attributed his longevity to good genes, good wives, and abstinence from tea, coffee, alcohol and tobacco...