Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stock of Lonrho, became a joint managing director with Chairman Alan Ball. Ever since, he has been flying around Africa in a twin-engine Beechcraft, persuading the established and emerging nations to do business with Lonrho, acquiring such diverse enterprises as the daily Zambia Times and Chibuku beer. His success has brought Rowland a Rhodesian maize-and-cattle ranch of his own and a creeper-covered English mansion in the exclusive Salisbury suburb of Highlands...
...good; not only how to create wealth but how to use it; not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. It proposes as the first test for a nation: the quality of its people." Johnson's speech, in the view of Government Professor Samuel Beer of Harvard, takes politics out of its previous formula. Says Beer: "During the New Deal right up until the Kennedy Administration, the great concern of politics was redistribution. We now have the means for solving the economic problem; Johnson is less concerned with the distribution of material things than...
Strongman Amin Hafez's first two decrees wholly or partly nationalized 115 firms worth some $70 million-from textiles to beer. The remaining decrees promised 1) compensation to owners over a 15-year period at 3% interest (most unlikely in a country that has had 15 government reshuffles in 18 years), and 2) life imprisonment or death to anyone attempting to "obstruct" the operation...
...decorative appeal of Louis' and Noland's work, especially for European critics, is not hard to understand. Compared to the beer cans, taxidermic delights, and other hairy intrusions of other new art, their art is clean, almost scrubbed raw. Without resorting to optical ping-pong, they soak pure peacock color into huge, unprimed, raw canvas. With all the flamboyant color that today's plastic paints can provide, their works please some as wall hangings, avant-garde tapestries aglow with unconventional color combinations and quite uncomplicated by symbolism...
They laugh when the shy little man in the TV commercial steps up to the bar and orders Byrrh (pronounced beer) on the rocks-but the laughter does not last long. Byrrh is a French aperitif wine that has up to now been unfamiliar to Americans, but it is getting a big introduction from a company that knows what Americans like to drink and how to sell it to them: Hartford's Heublein, Inc. Heublein (pronounced Hue-bline) invented the ready-made cocktail, led the trend to vodka drinking in the U.S., and was among the first to take...