Word: beer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million citizens range from headhunters in northern Luzon to transvestite Manila bini boys, but the bulk of them are hungry, hard-scrabbling peasants who live in the barrios of the towns and cities. Some scavenge metal from the firing ranges of U.S. bases; others cap bottles of San Miguel beer in the big stone brewery near Manila Harbor. Beneath the stately palms of Roxas Boulevard in downtown Manila, the sons of rich Filipino businessmen race their Fords past gaudy jeepneys (freelance taxis). Lovely women mingle on the streets of Manila and Olongapo, Cagayan and Baguio with horny-handed housewives...
...hundred and ninety professors representing 17 New England colleges signed a statement published yesterday supporting the administration's position in Vietnam. Among professors from Harvard who signed were Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, Morton H. Halperin, assistant professor of Government, and Henry A. Kissinger '50, associate professor of Government...
These reprehensible tactics might be draft card burnings and irresponsible demonstrations, Beer said last night. He cited a demonstration that occurred on Oct. 16 staged by the New York Vietnam Day Committee as such a tactic. At that time demonstrators displayed North Vietnamese flags and signs calling president Johnson a murderer...
Defense Attorney J. B. Stoner, a longtime vendor of racial and religious hate who had been a leading tub-thumper in the July 15 rally, produced witnesses who called Knight a liar and swore that Strange had spent a peaceful evening drinking beer at the Rozier house. Prosecutor Williams was quietly eloquent in his summation, "We need men," he told the jury, "who are not afraid to stand up and say, based on the testimony, we believe this man is guilty and are not afraid to say so." The jurors started off eight-to-four for acquittal on a first...
...Vital war materiel has no priority over commercial cargoes. An ammunition ship recently waited 23 days for a berth in Saigon, whose port facilities are hardly a match for those of Castine, Me. Viet Nam critically lacks warehouse space and distribution facilities. Last week 9,000,000 cans of beer and soft drinks were stacked up on Saigon's wharves...