Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warmest time of all was had when Besner and his group met the Russian ship Bucyra. They were ominously surrounded by about 30 "very tough-looking" Russian sailors and escorted to the captain's cabin. Recalls Besner: "For hours, we drank toasts in vodka to the Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum, to Montreal, Moscow, Leningrad, Expo, Prime Minister Pearson, peace, understanding, love, and I don't know what else, except that there were a lot of broken glasses and it was deep night when we emerged...
...four comic essays for The New Yorker, appeared on numerous TV shows at $10,000 a shot, played Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas for $25,000 a week, turned out two bestselling comedy albums, and lent his owlish visage to several advertisements ranging from Smirnoff's vodka to Foster Grant sunglasses. Now he is completing a new nightclub act as well as a play about "a happily neurotic love affair." This summer he plans to begin work on Take the Money and Run, a new film he co-authored and will star in. Has success spoiled...
...Stalin signed himself "Papochka" (little daddy). Even though he objected to her choice of a husband in 1951, the Soviet dictator staged a $500,000 czarist-style marriage feast that went on for two weeks, and was kept afloat by gallons of pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian brandy and vodka. But, after Stalin died in 1953, Svetlana dropped from sight. Last week she suddenly reappeared. In one of the more spectacular defections of the cold war, she surprised the world by seeking asylum in the West...
...hate. Any Russian, or presumed friend of a Russian, who approached was instantly plastered with spit, stones and invective. At night, bonfires on the embassy grounds cast tortured shadows of Soviet leaders hanged in effigy-Kosygin included. The 170 Russians who remained in the embassy were supplied with vodka and beer, bread and soup sent via air from Moscow and then carried in by East European and even Western diplomats who daily braved the Red Guard gauntlet. The Russians even filled their swimming pool with water in case the Chinese should shut off their supply. In Peking restaurants went...
...Mickey Mouse watch, less hair on his head than Sean Connery has in his left nostril, and a blithe belief that some fine day, if he faithfully munches his cornflakes and says sir to his superiors, he will become the sort of ice-cold secret operative who has vodka in his veins and comes out of his frightful experiences shaken but not stirred...