Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mistakenly support the current fad for blaming Detroit for our personal shortcomings. If cars were death-proof [April 1], if alcohol did not make you drunk, if the police were not brutal, if the Government would take care of me-ah, what a Camelot...
...Danes and Finns are just as tough as the Swedes about even slightly tipsy motor-vehicle operators. Violations cannot be fixed; Member of Parliament, clerk, street sweeper, all live in the same terror of flunking the blood-alcohol test and being clapped into jail. Time and again, when we lived in Denmark, friends with as few as two schnapps or highballs under their belts telephoned the police-who dispatched a courteous cop, free of charge, to drive them home...
...article on the prison sentence and fine imposed on Timothy Leary [March 18] presents only one side of this complex debate. Research on consciousness-expansion drugs, which are safer than alcohol and less addicting than nicotine, must be allowed to continue. We cannot afford to legislate out of existence such powerful educational tools as the psychedelic drugs promise...
...police as "H.B.D."-Had Been Drinking. Tranquilizers also play a role: doctors calculate that one pill equals one drink. The U.S. might be wise to emulate Sweden, where police routinely stop drivers and take suspected drinkers to the station house for blood tests; anyone with more than .05% alcohol in his blood stream (about one cocktail) is sentenced to as much as six months in jail. That is more than many a drunken driver in the U.S. gets for killing a child with...
...kill) the usual flavor. Perhaps an even better salesman than distiller, he drummed up a thriving trade for his bathroom booze among bistro owners at a safe distance from his home in Marseille: that way, they were not apt to visit his "factory." By World War II, when alcohol shortages suspended operations, Ricard had moved into a genuine factory, was selling 3,640,000 bottles annually...