Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Contraband luxury goods such as cosmetics, radios and lingerie, once burned in public bonfires because they "aroused wanton desires in the minds of the people," are now being sold openly in government commissaries-to foreigners who bring in needed capital. Alcohol tax rates, which were doubled by Park, have now been reduced because South Korea's breweries suffered an 80% slump in consumption in the first six months of this year...
Compulsive Gamble. Like Lipton and Sopwith, Australia's Sir Frank Packer is a tough, determined competitor. Asked why he had challenged for the cup, Packer replied: "Alcohol and delusions of grandeur." Lusty and lantern-jawed, a onetime prizefighter and lifelong yachtsman, Packer is known at home as a ruthless, tight-fisted publisher who once laced out a reporter for spending 6/ of his boss's money on a tram ride to an assignment-Packer told him to walk. Employees on his five newspapers (among them: the Sydney Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph), three magazines and two TV stations...
...gathered for a World Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists in San Francisco last week, there was a note of gentle irony in their choice of one of their meeting places−the Cow Palace. Vegetarians by conviction, almost all Adventists abstain from meat. They tend to abstain from alcohol, nicotine, coffee, tea, cosmetics, jewelry, dancing, card playing, movies, the theater, and "sensational" TV shows...
...Maria Vitelli, head of Turin's influential Chamber of Commerce, and among the members of the company's board is Count Piero Bonelli, a Fiat general director. The brewing will be done by German brewmasters, whose beer is more malty than Italian brews and also contains more alcohol (3.6%, v. 2.5% for most Italian beers...
...year grossed $4,170,000 selling liqueurs in a nation that used to tipple on sake and beer only. Now also sold in the U.S. by California Importer Lou Lamishaw, who expects to peddle $2,000,000 worth this year, Kuwabara's liqueurs are based on tasteless grain alcohol, range from crème de menthe to Ocha, an alcoholic version of Japanese green tea. To publicize his line, Kuwabara will send his black-belt boys to selected U.S. watering places this fall. "You see," he explains in fractured English, "a new campaign in an old toga...