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- GRAPEVINE, Page 13Firepower And Firewater
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- By PAUL GRAY/Reported by David Ellis
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- When it is christened Aug. 11 at Groton, Conn., the new
- Trident submarine U.S.S. Kentucky will have a bottle of bourbon
- rather than bubbly bashed across its bow. "We don't drink much
- champagne in Kentucky," says Congressman Larry Hopkins, a
- Republican from the state who sits on the House Armed Services
- Committee. To avoid offending any of the Kentucky distillers,
- Hopkins' wife Carolyn will break a bottle filled with a blend
- of bourbons from all the state's producers. The Navy professes
- no major qualms about this departure from tradition. Says a
- spokesman wryly: "The spirit's the thing."
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