Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind the big house walls, the Muslims attempt to proselyte in the mess halls, in the exercise areas, wherever they encounter other Negroes. Converts go through a reform of sorts, if they obey Elijah's injunction to give up tobacco, dope and alcohol and pray five times daily facing Mecca. Their demands for separate religious services are firmly denied by most prison authorities, on the ground that they are not a religious sect (the 100,000 authentic Moslems in the U.S. heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims...
Last week, two weeks of committee hearings came to an end. With the Internal Revenue Service's Alcohol Tax Unit clearing Paiewonsky of Brauer's accusation, with Paiewonsky swearing to divest himself of the Schenley stock, and with the White House standing pat with its choice, the committee approved Paiewonsky as Governor. The full Senate was expected to go along...
Martini, Manhattan, Scotch and soda? What's your preference? Two members of the Social Relations Department will soon be happy to serve your choice of liquor in an attempt to test the effects of alcohol on fantasy...
...letter claims that "no one has ever before studied the effects of alcohol on fantasy, although it seems sensible to assume that these are after all the most important and interesting effects the drug...
Part of the letter defends giving the tests in the subject's own home. It objects to the standard liquor-effects test given "in a sterile and impersonal laboratory with specified amounts of medicinal alcohol out of a graduated flask." The new system, the letter asserts, will make it possible to test the effects of alcohol in situations ranging from heavy-drinking parties to quiet cocktail affairs...