Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Apalachin (pronounced apple-achin') and converged on the secluded hilltop estate of Joseph Barbara, a beer distributor known to be high up in the underworld. His curiosity pricked by the procession of strange Cadillacs and Imperials, an alert state cop called agents of the Treasury Department's Alcohol Tax Unit in Albany. Surrounding the 53-acre estate, policemen halted 63 carefully tailored men-some at a roadblock, others fleeing through dense woods-and asked them who they were, where they came from and why they had come to Apalachin. After questioning, all were released...
...likeliest candidates to succeed Nehru are Patil himself, a tough, able administrator who is India's closest approximation of an anything-goes U.S. politician, and Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 63, an eccentric but capable mixture of far-out ideas on sex and alcohol (he is against both). Gandhian attitudes, and administrative talent. Both .men are strongly pro-Western, anti-Communist and holders of pragmatic economic views. But when Nehru last year announced that he wanted to step down as Prime Minister, Congress Party stalwarts, swept by panic, cried: "Pandit ji, you are leaving us orphans...
Sweet Smell of Excess. In Spartanburg, S.C., a jury could not decide whether Wilbur Fowler Allison was guilty of drunken driving, despite a cop's word that Allison reeked and was staggering, after Allison's barber swore that he had doused the accused with a 70%-alcohol hair tonic shortly before his arrest...
...Anthony D'Alonzo, in The Drinking Problem (Gulf Publishing; $2.95). The company first looks for certain giveaway signs: "Frequent absenteeism (characteristically on Monday); a gradual and appreciable drop in efficiency; a change in general appearance and dress habits; frequent disappearances from work." Next, Du Pont medics approach the alcoholic sympathetically, tell him that the company views his alcohol problem as an illness, not unlike heart disease. The company then sends the drinker to its own psychiatrists and to Alcoholics Anonymous-and it holds that A.A. is ten times more effective than the psychiatrists. "One who has never indulged...
First pressings show the grapes to have a potential 14% alcohol content (1% to 2½% higher than normal) and low acidity. At the same time, the full ripening of the skins guarantees enough tannin to give the wine full color and long life. Though cautious growers say that 1959's "character" cannot be judged for twelve months, others proclaim loudly that the wine will have the velvet taste of a superlative year. Because of the health of the harvest, France's winemakers foresee substantially increased exports and possibly lower prices. The U.S., which annually takes...