Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been the visit to the Libertyville, Ill., home of Adlai Stevenson. In the pleasantly chaotic informality of Stevenson's home, the President and Mrs. Touré escaped for the first time the stiffness of state visit protocol. Stevenson's lone maid bustled about getting food and drink ready while the Touré party inspected the Halloween jack-o'-lanterns which leered in through the windows from the dark and rain outside. (Stevenson had carved some of them himself at breakfast time.) The conversation wandered amiably from such subjects as Touré's speaking style...
Contrary to popular opinion, the ratio of gin to vermouth does not determine the strength or dryness of a martini. What most martini authorities seem to ignore is that chilling the drink on ice does more than make it cold: it cuts the strength of the gin with water. Try chilling your favorite martini formula in the freezer instead of using cracked ice. It'll be hard to get down. CHARLES F. BIRRELL Harrisburg...
...diagnosis and early treatment in an outside alcoholism clinic. But how does the company spot the man who needs treatment? Answered Du Font's Alcoholism Advisor David Meharg, himself a member of Alcoholics Anonymous: "When a man-or woman-stops bragging about how much he can drink and begins sneaking and lying about it, that's when he is an alcoholic...
...Castro, reported Dubois, "has a deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government"). But the longer Castro ruled, the more critical became Dubois, and Castro's Cuba lashed furiously back at him. Last September the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers ordered Havana waiters not to serve Dubois food or drink. Dubois took the ineffectual embargo (lifted after four weeks) in stride. Scoffed he: "I'll bring my own sandwiches." Next, barbers in Pinar del Rio province refused to cut Dubois's hair. That did not bother him; he hasn't much hair anyhow...
...many letters (each personally answered) poured in to Ireland's Whiskey Distillers that Gossage claims to have "established an important new industry in Ireland-writing letters to America." Says he: "If you write in and say you don't drink Irish, we may send your name to a man who does. It will be like the buddy system, like boy scouts helping each other to swim." Irish whiskey sales in the U.S.? Up 60% in the first nine months of this year, to 30,000 cases...