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Oder-Neisse line. In return, he got a congratulatory telegram from Vishinsky, two villas, a ration of 15 bottles of schnapps and 350 U.S. cigarettes monthly, and two mistresses. Every Thursday he enjoyed an all-night vodka bout with Russian Political Chief Vladimir Semenov. "What can happen to me?" he used to say. "If the Russians stay on top, I'll stay on top. If the Americans win, I'll just be taken to a camp and go on smoking Chesterfields...
...complained: "The soil begins to dry . . . The cause is lack of manpower. Things are managed the wrong way. Seventeen-year-old girls from the city who have never held a pitchfork in their hands work in the hayfields, while two husky kolkhoz fellows just sit by the stove, drink vodka and tell funny jokes...
...Correspondent Harrison E. Salisbury, "smells like American rye and tastes like not a bad Irish," comes in two sizes: a handy half-liter flask and a large economy-size flagon. Price: 24.7 rubles ($6.17) a pint.* Says the leaflet which accompanies each bottle: "You can drink it straight, from vodka or cognac glasses, mixed with soda water, or with a sliver of lemon and powdered sugar added to taste...
...Price of vodka...
...intervene before Bond can really call his mission accomplished. Author Fleming keeps his incidents and characters spinning through their paces like juggling balls. As for Bond, he might be Marlowe's younger brother except that he never takes coffee for a bracer, just one large Martini laced with vodka...