Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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injuries, age, and alcohol were the determining factors in Harvard athletics over the University's first exam weekend. In Saturday's one real sporting event, the inspired Lowell softballers thrashed a House faculty nine...
...Macon, Columbus and Albany. But because the facilities are still so limited, the Georgia clinics have strict eligibility rules. To get in, a patient must have the backing of a psychiatrist and another physician; he must be seeking help voluntarily; he cannot be currently addicted to drugs or alcohol; and the admitting psychiatrist must be convinced that his illness is likely to be arrested within a month...
...lightness to the influence of women, who prefer drinks without a lingering taste, and of young people, who find the "lights" easier to learn on. "Basically," argues Chairman John Martin of Heublein, which specializes in vodka (Smirnoff) and ready-mixed cocktails, "Americans don't like the taste of alcohol-it's too strong for them." Slightly more than half of the liquor Americans drink is still considered heavy by the new standards-such as bourbons and most blends-but a dozen years ago the "heavies" accounted for more than 80% of sales. Some bourbon distillers are selling more...
Distillers get lightness primarily by using more neutral spirits (grain alcohol), which contain no flavoring congeners, then lowering the proof with distilled water. U.S. distillers are at a disadvantage because federal law limits the amount of neutral spirits they may use in blends, while distillers of Scotch and Canadian have no limits. U.S. blends usually have 65% neutral spirits; Scotch and Canadian usually have 70%. Thanks to the trend to lightness, U.S. sales of Scotch have more than doubled in a decade to 9% of the market (most popular: Cutty Sark and J & B, two of the lightest blends...
...director occasionally intrudes a simply, fitful grand of symbolism. In one scene Lemmon and Remick are standing on the shore of San Francisco Bay. Says Remick, who will ultimately be consumed by alcohol, "I like the water--not up close where it's all dirty, but farther out where it's clean. Sometimes, though, it frightens me. I think, a sea monster will rise up and swallow me." In another, Lemmon is spraying Remick's apartment with roach killer. "You'll just get them excited," she objects, and sure enough out rush dozens of her fellow apartment dwellers to protest...