Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's race was, as usual, a ten-ring circus. The brassy oompah of Otto-Otto Kermbach's band thundered the Sportpalast Waltz-a ditty whose magic lies in the fact that every few bars the audience can join in with three short, shrill whistles. When enough beer and schnapps had flowed (nightly sales total 18,000 glasses of each), spectators swarmed onto the infield to dance. Fist fights flared in the smoky upper reaches of the grandstands, known as the "hayloft." The occupants of this low-cost Olympus exercise dictatorial power over the groundlings, demanding and usually...
...were posted with orders to let no one in or out. "This is the dirtiest trick in history," howled Tshombe. "It's unprecedented to imprison a visiting head of government." Forced to watch the conference on television, he refused to eat for fear of being poisoned, drank Katanga beer he had brought with him, and kept his four secretaries up all night typing protests to all 46 nations at the meeting...
...Cards were the surprise. A month before, they were 81 games out of first place, and Owner Gussie Busch had already lined up Leo Durocher to replace sad-faced Manager Johnny Keane. Now, so the story went, Beer Baron Busch was paying Durocher $100,000 just to stay away from the ballpark...
...when it was all over, what had they, besides a stomach full of free beer? Ah. Such things cannot be explained second-hand. Come to 14 Plympton St. at 7:30 tonight yourself and discover...
Borden's moves toward such products, which are linked more often to beer guzzlers than to milk sippers, will be supervised by a new top man. In a shift long expected at Borden's, Executive Vice President Francis R. Elliott, 61, last week stepped up to become president and chief executive, replacing Harold W. Comfort, Borden's chief since 1956, who is retiring at 67. Elliott joined the nation's fifth largest food firm 35 years ago as a junior lawyer, soon shifted to the milk and ice cream division, which still accounts for about...