Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Australian government decided that it would be patriotic to shut all pubs at 6 p.m. With offices closing at 5, that did not leave much time for serious drinking, but Australians learned to make the most of it. Like alcoholic camels, they stowed away great amounts of beer in short amounts of time, capping it all with what is known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-ordering up to half a dozen beers a minute before the "beeroff" bell, gulping them down in the 15 minutes before the barmaids had to collect all glasses. Professional teetotalers kept...
...Strasse Checkpoint, that is. Winfried Zippel, 20, an East Berlin mason and truck driver by profession, would steal a construction truck. Then he and his pal, Heinz Trochim, 21, a machinist, would crash the Wall to freedom. It being a warm summer night, the cocky pair tanked up on beer before setting out. The celebration was premature: before they had driven a single block, a pair of East German S.S.D. (State Security) cars squealed to a halt in front of them, and a clutch of cops jumped out. Beery protestations proved unavailing. Trochim drew a two-year sentence...
Tame Squirrels. Actually, Faulkner was at his best when he was informal. He wrote letters to the editor of the Oxford (Miss.) Eagle on such matters as a campaign to legalize the sale of beer ("Yours for a freer Oxford, where publicans can be law-abiding publicans six days a week"), he reported that a hit-run driver had killed his bird dog ("His name was Pete. He was just a dog, a 15-month-old pointer"), and he took an ad to thank the mayor for removing a sign that had been posted near his gate. In a tartly...
...Costlier Beer. The vast U.S. buildup has made the railroad of prime concern to the Saigon government and its allies-and a favorite target of the Viet Cong. Last year the Reds staged 811 incidents along the line's 690 miles of track, mostly mine explosions and sniping attacks that killed 126 Vietnamese. Today only 345 miles of track are usable, despite the fact that most trains carry three squat grey gun cars bristling with automatic weapons, and are often preceded by diesel-powered machine-gun-bearing armored cars called con rua, or "turtles," by the Vietnamese. But armored...
...Central Station, where it demolished two waiting rooms and killed ten sleeping soldiers. More damaging has been the effect on South Viet Nam's economy: vegetable prices have soared 60% since the Communists cut the line between Dalat and Saigon, and the cost of "33" brand beer, Viet Nam's favorite brew, has climbed from 15 to 70 piasters a bottle in Danang. Says a U.S. adviser: "The only way to secure the line is to take up the rails at 5 p.m., and lock them up for the night...