Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crayoned sign on the door of Georgetown University's glass-and-concrete Hall of Nations in Washington announced a coming event: SOCIAL MIXER- BEER, PEOPLE, DANCING. But what went on inside the hall one night last week was hardly a mixer. It was the televised debate between Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy and critics of the Administration's firm Viet Nam policies, originally scheduled for May but postponed when the President ordered Bundy to the Dominican Republic...
...some 85 island dwellers who have also put in bathtubs are looked upon as softies. Sailing is by far the leading activity in the islands, and the impressive-sounding North Channel Yacht Club is a small, roofless dock where islanders assemble for a beer or two after races. Three or four fairly primitive tennis courts have been rolled out in the woods on a couple of larger islands. One established resident is Lucien Wulsin, president of Baldwin Pianos, another is Dr. Derrick Vail, famed eye surgeon. Adlai Stevenson is a frequent visitor. Desbarats is, as a Chicago women's editor...
What lives in an Eastern or Mid-western city, ranges in age from 21 to 40, earns about $7,500 a year and is thirstier than a Bavarian immigrant? Answer: the typical U.S. beer drinker. Beer production in the U.S. last year reached 98.5 million barrels, or 27 gallons for every adult. No less than 75% of this sea of suds, however, was downed by those 21-to-40 urbanites, who constitute only 20% of the population. Since the group's size is due to increase 11% by 1970 and another 37% by 1980, even higher beer sales foam...
...Houston), added that its output this year will reach 12.2 million barrels v. 10.4 million last year because Busch brands (Budweiser, Michelob, Busch-Bavarian) have captured another 1% of the market. At the same time, Falstaff Brewing Corp., Busch's St. Louis neighbor and the fourth-ranking beer company, bought Narragansett Brewing Co., New England's largest brewery, for $19.5 million...
...general feeling was that it could .never happen here. Surfing, and the way of life it suggested, was something that was practiced only by the golden boys and girls of the West Coast and duly celebrated in B movies, featuring beer, broads and orgies. But last week, from Maine to Miami, beaches with a rolling surf were bristling with the sleek Fiberglas slabs. The staid old resort of Narragansett, R.I., has found itself inundated by board-bearing interlopers, who have discovered that the once Brahmin beach has just the right kind of waves. On Long Island, where 40 surfboards were...