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...reason "The Steps of the Pentagon" is Mailer's best work, as Harper's boasts on the cover, is one magnificent ten-page passage about Thursday Night at the Ambassador Theatre. Time Magazine described the scene in a red-bordered box last October, telling how Mailer slurped bourbon from a coffee mug and yelled obscenities at the audience, as Mitchell Goodman, Robert Lowell, and Dwight MacDonald--the other speakers--sniggered at him patronizingly in the wings...
...case of Mrs. Cunningham, the respite was as long as any recorded. After the first alcohol treatment worked, Dr. Perell sent her home from Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., with the prescription to "feel free to do a little elbow bending." Mrs. Cunningham felt like two bourbon-and-ginger-ale highballs a day. "This," she says, "was the only thing I could keep down." But it did not raise the alcohol level in her blood high enough to keep the oxytocin down. For that, a level close to the intoxication mark is needed. Her contractions began again. So back...
...sold in a bookstore is not necessarily a book. It could be a nonbook, or as Miss Hackett would say, a "nonreading" book. A lifelong career woman in the book business, she thus distinguishes between reading books and nonreading books much as an alcoholic or a barman would describe bourbon and branch water as a drink and Metrecal as a non-drink-liquid food, perhaps. In any event, the nonreading category consists of two main classes, the "how-to" and the "self-help." After the Bible, whose varied editions and vast sales are beyond specific reckoning, the top sellers...
...Whatever difficulties may arise between the governments of France and the U.S.A. [Dec. 29], I shall remain faithful to my many American friends. Even if some of your readers advocate a boycott of French products, I shall keep on wearing Arrow shirts, drinking bourbon and reading TIME magazine. I hope the plain people of our countries will not be carried away in an escalade of mistrust and retaliation...
While the first batch of Kennedy Round tariff reductions was going into effect last week, a wide assortment of other trade barriers loomed as high as ever. These are nontariff gimmicks designed to impede the inflow of foreign goods. Wine-producing France, for example, puts a crimp on bourbon and Scotch imports by prohibiting all whisky advertising. In Italy, foreign automakers find it difficult to buy prime time on the state-owned television. Switzerland not only restricts imports of milk products but gives special help-including price supports and low-cost feed-to Swiss dairymen whose cows graze in remote...