Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deference to teetotaling Mormon George Romney, his aides stuck strictly to sherbet punch during Michigan's Republican convention. But by convention's end, they could probably have used a real drink. Heckled by opposition within his own party, Romney had lost his temper and slashed out at Democrats in a fashion that was likely to haunt...
...emergencies, they need special techniques for artificial respiration-as was demonstrated at Memphis by a volunteer who wore a plastic bag over his head, and snugged tight around his neck, for half an hour. But they can eat and drink normally and do practically everything that they could do before the operation-except swim, since they cannot close that hole in the neck. One other exception, notes Manhattan's Speech Therapist John McClear wistfully, is that they cannot play a wind instrument. McClear used to play the saxophone...
Ladies swish and titter in rooms once sacrosanct to cognac and cigars. Clubs that once disdained "activities" now stage musical evenings, lectures, seminars and even dances to lure members and their guests to the board and bar. Membership rolls have been expanded while services have been curtailed; a drink costs as much as or more than it does at the restaurant around the corner, and many a club member is doing well to get a ham sandwich on a summer weekend...
...businessmen-such as San Francisco's Pacific Union, the Arizona Club in Phoenix, or the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis-the trend to country living has had little effect on membership. But the evening flight from the city has generally depleted club revenues from food and drink. Says Lieut. General Milton G. Baker, superintendent of the Valley Forge Military Academy and a longtime member of Philadelphia's century-old Union League Club: "These days you won't find 15 men in the League's card, billiard or game rooms, or the libraries...
...Women & Drink. Men's clubs are still reeling under the impact of the female's arrival as a drinking partner. Today women have invaded all but the oldest-line bastions of masculinity. "Women and country clubs have broken up the tradition," says a member of Manhattan's University Club, one of the first to install a ladies' cocktail lounge (in 1942). "Thirty years ago, women didn't care much about clubs; now they all want to join a country club. And what's worse, they want their husbands to hang around there with them...