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...Potent Brew. The excursion into the past is not confined to a single event. Many society members belong to Associated Guilds that year-round practice medieval arts and crafts: calligraphy, armoring, needlepoint, medieval dance, heraldry and the brewing of mead, a potent alcoholic beverage fermented from honey. All the skills come together at tournaments-staged several times a year by the society's four "kingdoms" -where the guildists hawk medieval wares, including such products as "dragon's blood," a fine powder used in magic potions...
...surface that University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper says might resemble a fresh volcanic field, with boiling sulfur springs and red-hot pools of molten metals. The planet's atmosphere is no less forbidding-mostly carbon dioxide plus thick yellow clouds that may be a poisonous brew of such substances as hydrochloric acid, ammonium chloride or salts of mercury. In fact, the composition of these clouds is still a prime question for scientists. Only in the upper layers does the atmosphere even vaguely resemble that of the earth, leading Astronomer Carl Sagan to speculate that these upper layers might...
...Jacques Brel playing at Mather House is an altogether headier brew. Instead of light Parisienne melodies Brel's tones are cloudy and foreboding--substantial with the threat of storm. The music has a vaguely northern flavor, almost Germanic as if it had some spiritual connection with the songs Kurt Weill wrote for Brecht. But there is also a carnival air, with melodies spinning faster and faster up and then down...
...moonshiners still ply their illicit trade in the deep recesses of Appalachia. Feeling rather like David Livingstone in search of the Nile's source. Correspondent William Friedman was blindfolded and led through the labyrinthine Eastern Kentucky hills to meet one of the last of those who brew "white lightning" in hidden caves. His report...
When a flight of four Phantoms lands on the twin 10,000-ft. runways, the planes quickly taxi to rows of protective concrete revetments. Once a plane is safely parked, the pilot climbs out and is handed a cold can of Budweiser. While he sips the brew, a yellow forklift truck trundles up with armaments, and the ground crew hurriedly rearms the Phantom with an awesome array of weaponry-iron bombs, rockets and napalm canisters. Normally, the entire operation takes only 20 minutes. The beer never gets warm before the pilot climbs back into his Phantom to take...