Word: beer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they saw isn't worth a second look. A few benefit, however: fans who missed a segment of their favorite series the night the house burned down, virtuous husbands stuck in the city while their wives and children are vacationing at the beach, baseball addicts too bemused by beer to switch off when the game is over, and other misfits...
Lacking the normal supply of G.I.s. Saigon's garish night life virtually flickered out. At one B-girl boîte, a lone visitor nursed his beer while a Vietnamese mademoiselle opened his pack ol cigarettes, another refilled his glass, and a third sighed, "These are bad times...
...bunks and thrown up small tent cities to handle the 100,000 campesinos trucked in for the occasion. Streets were hung with posters and gaily colored banners. All day and night, reported TIME Correspondent Edwin Reingold, streets were clogged with peasants in gay carnival hats, sipping a glass of beer or munching hungrily on roast-pig sandwiches...
American firms have also profited from Europe's increasing fascination with self-service machines. Vendo Co. of Kansas City exports automatic dispensers for German beer and wine; Westinghouse and Whirlpool both are selling coin-operated laundry and dry-cleaning equipment; and a small Greenville, S.C., firm called Barbecue King expects to double European sales of restaurant barbecue equipment this year to $600,000. "This is the time to go in there," says Barbecue King President Robert Wilson. "They really want to buy American goods...
...mess has been nowhere more significant than in Czechoslovakia, where last week officials fretted publicly over falloffs in food canning, dairy production and even the supply of Pilsner beer. As Communist satellites go, Czechoslovakia is something special. It is the most industrialized and the most intellectualized country in the Russian orbit. By all accounts, it should have been an Iron Curtain showplace-and for a while it was. But after running at an annual growth rate of between 8% and 11% in the late 1950s, Czechoslovakia's gross national product has remained almost static at about $18.5 billion since...