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Nixon moved through this landscape seemingly a lonely man, clinging to his American habits-dry cereal, cottage cheese, no vodka, only modest sips of champagne-and his singleness of purpose. There was something very admirable about the man in these circumstances, determined to bring something home, to make a supreme effort to get a little more order into the world...
...primary he finally lost an election-to New York State Assemblyman Charles Rangel, who easily defeated the Republican candidate the following fall. Shaken, Powell retreated to the tiny Bahamian island of Bimini, where he played through his days, surrounded by girls in bikinis and enjoying such concoctions as a vodka-and-Tang drink that he called "poontang...
...note stating his name, rank and naval assignment as an antisubmarine warfare and torpedo specialist at the British naval base in Portsmouth, and Maureen delivered it to the Russian embassy in London. After he left the hospital, the Soviets invited him to London for a meeting. Over vodka, they gave him $1,200 as an initial payment, as well as instructions to photograph "anything of interest." Using his security clearance to gain access to secret documents, Bingham took photographs of among other things, sonar detection systems and wartime contingency plans of the British fleet. "The damage you have done...
...Half-time was the key," Lackner said. "We gave them some oranges we had injected with vodka in order to slow them down. Apparently it did the trick...
...interviews with travelers. The station's 100 political analysts, many of them natives of Eastern Europe, often are able to draw deductions that an official Eastern European commentator could never make. Example: the notion that the Polish government actually encourages alcoholism because it collects a big tax on vodka...