Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unpromising Start. Secretary Freeman's first important official act was to raise price supports on cotton. That was a highly unpromising start. By upping the support level, Freeman widened the gap between the U.S. price and the world price, worsened the competitive disadvantage of U.S. textile makers. His next...
"The essence of Cornell is freedom," gloats one professor. "You're king of your classroom." Student life is equally free; attendance is not taken after freshman year and upper-class drinking in rooms is unrestricted. The student guidebook even recommends "sour hour" at a local tavern noted for TGIF...
Drinking at Home. "I'll be damned if we're not selling more ashtrays than drinks." says white-haired Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's Stork Club, where business is off 35% and the waiters have just taken a 15% cut in pay. Among expense-accounters who...
Manhattan is full of blues in the night. Toots Shor, contemplating the thinned-out ranks at his bar, says ruefully: ''We're getting re-educated for drinking at home." Proprietor Billy Reed of the
Americans drink 80% of the world's whisky, and the slightest change in their drinking tastes is anxiously watched by the $6 billion U.S. liquor industry. For some time now, the industry has been adjusting to the public shift toward something called lightness-a combination of smoother flavor, lower...