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...Soviet Journalists, and the delegation's pin-money treasurer, refused to convert his $3,000 expense-money draft into traveler's checks, demanded cash (he got it). Teetotaler Erofeev also had transcontinental trouble ordering the soft drink recommended by Teetotaler Salisbury; Erofeev kept asking for ginger ale, but his hosts, misinterpreting his basic English, kept bringing him gin rickeys and gin-and-tonic. "The Russians were charmed by Disneyland," said Salisbury "and they left San Francisco starry-eyed. On the bus back to the hotel, one of them hummed happily a song of his own composition...
...ancient (and perhaps apocryphal) College rule once entitled students taking final or midyear examinations to receive a mug of ale at the end of the first hour. This sympathetic gesture seems rather anomalous for the strait-laced old Puritans who supposedly made it. Perhaps even they, despite their conviction that "all work and no play sends Jack to Heaven," had some unconscious qualms about the examination system...
...final edged note. Punch presents useful new phrases tailored to newly poor U.S. tourists. Recommends Punch: In stead of saying. "Will you folk never learn to make a chilled martini?", say "I am acquiring a taste for mild ale." For "Yeah, we did Scotland last week-end," substitute "I think we can afford the fare to Banbury." For "Keep the change, kid." try "Thank...
...first attempt to prove this hypothesis was a failure. Glaser brought bottles of beer, soda water and ginger ale into his laboratory (beer was forbidden on campus, he now recalls) and heated them. He placed a radioactive source near a bottle; then he uncapped the bottle. The radiation had no observable effect on the bubbles that burst out of the bottle, but Glaser was not discouraged. Working with almost no funds or encouragement, he built his first successful bubble chamber in 1953. It was half an inch in diameter and was filled with ether. "Ether is cheap," explains Glaser...
...Smoker," declared the Freshman Red book. "The main feature will be Gertrude Nieces, the popular New York singer, backed up by a cast of forty entertainers. To add to the splendor of the party, Memorial Hall has been engaged as the place, two and free food, tobacco, and ginger ale will provide the rations...