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...light-beer market, which accounts for close to $3 billion, or about 13% of U.S. beer sales. Miller Lite beer ads have long made heavy use of male athletes in an attempt to drive home the message that Lite, though low calorie, is a real beer-drinker's beer, not the namby-pamby brew of weaklings...
Elevated to the presidency, Poli took his reputation as a militant seriously. A hearty eater and drinker, the 6-ft. 2-in. Pittsburgh native usually speaks calmly and always clearly. "I am not a ranter or a raver or a stomper," he says. "I am frank and straightforward." One critic calls him "a brash bastard," while one follower considers him "a helluva father figure." Poli does not apologize for, in effect, pushing his friend Leyden aside. "We could see there might be cause to strike," he explains coolly. "I knew I would be ready for it, and John might...
...make the black man move? I looked at the other men and women, who studiously avoided my eyes. There was one woman whom I had noticed before, and I had been ashamed of her. She was a stringy little black woman. She looked as if she were a hard drinker. Flat black face with tight features, dressed in a tight boy's sweater pulled down over a nondescript skirt...
...country?" Mississippi Republican Chairman Mike Retzer took the analogy a step further, asking, "If the President can't control Billy, how can he control Brezhnev?" In Cleveland, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman Bob Hughes called the Billy episode "Watergate revisited," adding: "The idea of America's foremost beer drinker negotiating with Gaddafi or Hamilton Jordan negotiating with Panama over the Shah makes you wonder what the hell was the State Department doing...
...Offer him his wages in bottles. Vodka is also the ideal gift for minor officials from whom a small favor is needed. Since vodka flows as freely as the Volga in the U.S.S.R., why do so many Soviet citizens welcome it as either pay or present? For the regular drinker, vodka is expensive at $5.50 a half-liter. And the better brands, which are customarily used as currency and gifts, are often hard to find in stores...