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...couple drove to a country inn outside Potsdam. After spending the night writing letters to friends and straightening out their wills, they strolled in great good humor to the shore of a nearby lake. They drank coffee and skipped stones; then there were two shots. When the servant who had served them coffee returned, she found the bodies...
...energy I Lowenstein put into these and other activities was astounding. A man who drank chocolate milkshakes for breakfast as "fuel," he spent the last 30 years of his life "chasing about the globe in the service of causes." He was, as one acquaintance put it, a "one man civil liberties committee." He was in Spain helping the organized opposition to Francisco Franco, he was in Southwest Africa investigating conditions, smuggling out anti-apartheid tape recordings, and gathering evidence of oppression to present to the U.N. he was in Mississippi, long before the civil rights movement became modish, organizing...
Companies have taken to uncapping new brands because the popularity of old ones has been going flat. The American public drank only about 3% more soft drinks last year than in 1981. During the 1960s and 1970s, annual increases in consumption ran as high...
...families where alcohol was forbidden, drinking took place apart from meals and away from home, and male drunkenness was tacitly admired. The Irish in the survey also became alcohol dependent seven times as frequently as the Italians, who as children learned that drunkenness was frowned on and drank with family groups and with meals (thus diminishing the addictive effect of the alcohol "high"). To Vaillant, these sharp differences (which are also true of the more alcoholic Northern Europeans as contrasted to moderate Jews) suggest that "one of the directions we should go is to teach children how to make intelligent...
...Chapel Hill in 1954, going on to speculate prosperously in land. He speaks wistfully of a period, long ago, when he ran through his money in the sporting houses of Havana. Laying a finger alongside a nose whose veins suggest some past abuse, he allows: "One time, I drank myself broke...