Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them dark-skinned Cambodians or the daughters of French Senegalese soldiers-are less costly and usually less comely than their sisters on white-dominated Tu Do Street near by. The "in" spot in Soulsville is the L. & M. Guest House, a bar-restaurant and record booth run by balding, beer-bellied "Johnny" Hill, 35, a New Orleans Negro and ex-merchant sailor whose menu of "soul food" runs from No. 4 (turnip greens) through No. 8 (barbecued spareribs) to No. 9, "Kansas City Wrinkles," better known as chitlins. In Soulsville, the sustenance is psychological as well. There, no matter...
...People. Even before he left, cops lower down the line felt something had to be done. Sergeant William Berry, president of the local chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, decided that "we had a greater purpose than just going to parties and drinking beer." He hired a law firm to bridge the gap between the civil service cops and their city employers. Then he retained Bonsib, Inc., a Fort Wayne, Ind., public relations company. "We needed to get the man on the street to understand the police and their problems," explained Berry. Bonsib began by drawing...
After the freshman lacrosse team over-whelmed Yale, 14-4, for its sixth straight win and eighth of the season against only one loss, beer and champagne followed in abundance at Dillon Field House. The Yardling stickmen had reason to celebrate. They were, according to Coach Jim Lentz, the "finest freshman lacrosse team I've had in my ten years at Harvard...
...company's overreliance on a single commodity; despite its other interests (including Revere Sugar, Tropical Radio Telegraph Co.), bananas still account for 65% of its business. Consequently, United Fruit last year acquired the J. Hungerford Smith Co. (manufacturer of soda-fountain syrups) and the A & W root beer-stand system, only last month bought up the Baskin-Robbins chain of franchised ice cream parlors. All this, management hopes, will keep United Fruit's earnings as rich as a banana split...
...like an awful curse. Look bought "The Christ mas Gift," Hemingway's 1954 account of near death in two plane crashes in Africa. What Look published was a mawkish self-portrait of the Hemingway hero emerging from the jungle with two bunches of bananas, four bottles of Carlsberg beer and a jug of Grand MacNish. At 54, he was ready to take the count...