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...gallons of liquor poured out -into throats, not gutters. From other liquor stores, Negro looters formed human chains that reached clear around corners. They went first for the imported Scotch (Chivas Regal and Johnny Walker Red Label were the preferred brands), then for the bourbons and gins, next for vodka and champagne and-when everything else ran out-for cheap muscatels and cordials. TV stores were hard-hit. "I can get $500 for this color set," exulted one looter. "It's got a $1,000 price...
...very cold here. So you have to train yourself to ignore it." For years, Nakian has been training exuberantly at his Stamford, Conn., studio by designing huge, flagrant evocations of Greek nymphs and goddesses (see color opposite). Modern U.S. sculpture in classical themes seems a bit like vodka martinis in Grecian urns. Yet Nakian's polylithic Ledas, Hecubas and Olympias are lusted after by some of the most adventurous contemporary curators and collectors in the country...
...absences, temporary disappearances from the job, late starting and early finishing, too many conferences during working hours, and too much time spent on social activities on the job." At about the same time, Poland's Communist daily, Trybuna Ludu, warned Polish workers to lay off card playing and vodka drinking during working hours-practices that it charged are widespread. Reporting the "agony" of watching workers standing around idly, smoking cigarettes and chatting, Hungary's weekly Szabad FÖld recently described the country's labor situation as "desperate and terrible...
...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...