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...bloodshed (see following story). Basic to it all: people are drinking lighter and drinking less, and seem to be proud of it. A new poll conducted for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc., showed that only 67% of the nation's 170 million adults over 18 said that they drank at all. More than a third of them acknowledged that they have cut back their consumption over the past few years; only 6% said they drank more...
...anti-Communist witch-hunt that Sen. Joseph McCarthy introduced into American public life extended long after Tail Gunner Joe drank himself to death. The mainstream, as represented by Eisenhower. Kennedy, and Johnson, was so afraid of re-awakening the venomous far-Right that it felt compelled to demonstrate its unflinching opposition to Communism around the world. It was perceived as soft on the Reds, it felt doomed. This is why liberal Harvard-educated Kennedy felt compelled to risk nuclear annihilation over missiles in Cuba, while Nixon, a man who made his reputation as a Red baiter, could embrace...
...suckers for style as far as Soviet leaders are concerned. I remember how we had an NSC briefing on Nikita Khrushchev back when he came to power in the '50s. We were told that he was going to be a temporary man because he drank too much, wore ill-fitting clothes, spoke bad Russian and had boorish manners...
...Spinks was the college coach of current Sox pitcher Oil Can Boyd is neither an earth-shattering or particularly interesting revelation. Gammons' awkward prose and his tendency to repeat anecdotes (how many times must we hear that after clinching the American League pennant in '75, Sox manager Darrel Johnson drank whiskey with Oakland Athletic Joe Rudi rather than celebrating with his team?) do not help matters...
...member of the men's squad who asked to remain anonymous was particularly impressed. "Their female javelin thrower drank us under the table...