Word: camay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skipper and the first mate were disconcertingly light on their feet and very camp: they played for Roy a record of selections from radio shows and commercials of the '40's-the Green Hornet, the Lone Ranger, Camay Soap, and Phillip Morris...
...model that retails legally for $46 costs $7.50 at your friendly smuggler's outlet. Guatemalans smuggle almost anything made in Mexico; Costa Rica's national lottery is pretty unexciting, so Costa Ricans slip in big wads of tickets from Panama, where the payoff is bigger. In Chile Camay soap rates high, since local brands are sudsless-and expensive. Scotch whisky is a durable favorite everywhere. (Enterprising Argentine distillers now produce under license a domestic brand labeled "Old Smuggler," but it cannot quite pass the hangover test, and customers still prefer the imported stuff.) U.S. autos bring...
...equivalent in a California product. In white wines, Pinot Chardonnay, for example, is related to a Pouilly-Fuissé or a Chablis, white Riesling to a dry Rhine, Sauvignon Blanc to a superior dry Graves; in the reds. Cabernet Sauvignon is like red Bordeaux, Pinot Noir like lesser Burgundy, Camay Beaujolais similar to the French Beaujolais...
...Viva Vino. For quality wines, the experts stick to the Napa Valley for reds, Livermore for whites and Sonoma for Rhines. Among the leaders: Louis Martini's Zinfandel and Folle Blanche, Inglenook's Cabernet Sauvignon, Wente Brothers' Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Chardonnay, Charles Krug's Camay and Camay Beaujolais. California's sparkling wines, on the other hand, are rarely worth the nose tickling; U.S. champagne is almost exclusively the province of New York State...