31.   The Oregonian reached the top first and saw a group of people drinking champagne.

32.   There, they drank champagne.

33.   They drank hard and drank champagne from championship cups in the Japanese Pacific League.

34.   They promised each other that when they got to America, they would go to the top of the Statue of Liberty and drink champagne.

35.   Tying our rafts together, we drifted for an hour, drinking champagne and eating a lovely tortellini salad tossed with vinaigrette and sun-dried tomatoes.

36.   Tuesday they were still not drinking champagne.

37.   Wealthy and eccentric, she boasted that she had never done her own housework or cooked her own meals, and that she drank only champagne.

38.   When Ms. Bach was a teen-ager living in Chicago she frequented the Congress Hotel, where she drank champagne with Duke Ellington and danced to Benny Goodman.

39.   But the models, including Naomi Campbell, were dressed up for Siberia as they cavorted, smoked, drank champagne and kibitzed with the audience at the bar.

40.   In Puerto Ordaz, Chavez and Castro drank champagne and ate birthday cake during an elegant dinner party that lasted until dawn Monday.