Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Saffir concocted the idea of the paper over a drink at a United Nations cocktail party, where he met the Latin American journalist Jorge Losada, who is now the Times's editor in chief. After 13 years as editor of the Spanish-language Latin American newsmagazine Visión, Losada was convinced that U.S. businessmen, with roughly $10 billion in investments in Latin America, were hungry for more news from the land where their money is. And Saffir, a longtime I.N.S. foreign correspondent, who had brought out the highly profitable New York Standard during the 1963 newspaper strike...
...hand, they are expected to act "grownup" at an ever-earlier age, handle their own (and large) allowances in grade school, date seriously at twelve, find summer jobs at 15, and own their own cars at 16. On the other hand, in most states they are not allowed to drink until 21, and theoretically not expected to have sexual intercourse until they are married. Furthermore, the push toward college and graduate school has meant that many young men and women are still financially tied down to their parents until their late...
...bone dry unless a wagon train can get through with the likker. So 40 wagonloads of champagne and whisky go lumbering across the plains on a collision course with a band of footsore Denver vigilantes determined to protect the booze, a tribe of thirsty Sioux Indians who want to drink it, and a U.S. Cavalry troop led by Captain Jim Hutton set on heading off the Sioux. Meanwhile, a temperance-minded suffragette (Lee Remick) fields her lady crusaders and Colonel Burt Lancaster must deploy more horse soldiers to keep the girls out of trouble...
...perhaps even aggressive, eager for companionship, and decidedly on the make," and the other young lady, the narrator, "shy, sensitive, and cautious, yet at the same time eager for a relationship she fears but finds constantly in her dreams," and later how "in the New York world of abundant drink and casual fornication, the relationship between the two girls becomes, in a sense, reversed." Fine idea in theory, but in this case it doesn't quite come...
...bottled beer" pioneered by Miller of Milwaukee, and brewmasters (who prefer heavier beer) are changing the proportion of malt, hops, rice and corn grits to provide it. One holdout is New York's F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. "We're willing to forsake all those people who drink a can of beer once every two weeks," says Market Development Manager Edmund E. Kelly. Schaefer still brews for the 20% who drink 75% of the suds and enjoy it, the brewers suspect, for lustier reasons than lightness...