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Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov kept pleading, with anyone who would listen, for separate negotiations between Russia and West Germany. Breaking precedent, Smirnov even showed up at a U.S. newsman's cocktail party in Bonn to buttonhole guests with his persistent questions: "Why are you afraid to let the West Germans talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Stag Party Canceled | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...puts a spoonful of honey into a glass of milk, it makes a much tastier drink. I have named it a "Canaan Cocktail," for, according to the Bible, the land of Canaan is flowing with milk and honey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1962 | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...term cocktail does not change my status as a lifelong teetotaler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1962 | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

...Burpee's. Poring over this document, Angelenos can find anything from mortuary science, avant-garde French theater and "Values of Contemporary Man," to applied combinatorial mathematics taught by George (One, Two, Three . . . Infinity) Gamow and "Flights of Reality" as charted by Novelist Erskine Caldwell. The catalogue has revolutionized cocktail chatter from Bel Air to Beverly Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Town-Gown Triumph | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Summoned home by a grateful government, Ira and his buddies were met with brass bands, bronze stars, microphones and cocktail shakers. They were thanked in person by President Roosevelt and hustled off on a coast-to-coast tour of war-bond rallies. Unhappily, all the attention was too much for Ira. a nice simple country boy of 22. He began to hit the bottle and hit it hard. After the war, he kept right on drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Descent from Suribachi | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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