Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even in the glass and cinder block guest suite on the top floor of Leverett House F Tower, is to walk into another world. You knock; he opens the door. "Professor Alexander?" you say. "Yes," he says, and blinks. "Won't you come in? Will you have some ginger beer?" You try to explain why you have come, but he waves you to a chair, apologizes for having nothing but ginger beer, and asks you won't you have some. Only after you are seated and have at least refused his offer, are you allowed to speak...
...biochemical filter with incredibly delicate powers of discrimination. It is also a prodigious worker (see diagram, left). All the water that anyone consumes in food or drink must go into the blood and be extracted by the kidneys before it can be voided as urine-contrary to the beer drinker's cliche "It goes right through you." Kidneys also work fast: the malodorous sulphur compound in asparagus is extracted and begins to be excreted in a couple of hours...
...which included a controlling interest-mostly in the names of Sarit's relatives-in at least 15 specially privileged companies. Among them: the only merchant bank allowed to import gold; the only sales agency for the government plywood monopoly; a brewery with a heady share of the government beer monopoly; two companies with concessions to print and sell tickets for the national lottery; a construction firm with major government contracts. Sarit also owned a commercial fishing boat, some 50 autos, 30 Bangkok villas and a 3,000-acre farm...
...Such a Dump." "After World War I," wrote Ernest Kirschten in his book Catfish and Crystal, "St. Louis dozed off. Maybe it was tired. Maybe Prohibition was not only a shock but also a sedative to this beer city. Depression was no stimulant. More than ever, St. Louis turned in on itself, contemplated its communal navel...
CREW One for the Alumni The first thing most athletes do when they get out of college is to order a heavy meal, wash it down with a cold beer, take a deep drag on a cigarette -and gleefully go to pot. But not if they live in Philadelphia and know how to pull an oar. Philadelphia's 99-year-old Vesper Boat Club awards no letters or athletic scholarships; its members work out six days a week, row as much as six miles each practice session. Why? "Because we like it," says Secretary-Treasurer John B. Kelly...