Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When his hangover fades on the morning after, the drunken driver of the night before may turn defensively argumentative. The cops, he usually claims, exaggerated his alcoholic difficulties. If he was lucky enough to escape a serious accident, and cautious enough not to submit his telltale breath to a drunk-ometer's measurement, he can often make his story stick...
...Dirt roads and sagging, patched, unpainted shacks. The inevitable railroad tracks. On summer mornings, cotton trucks rolling through the streets in search of pickers. Blood stench in the air on slaughter day at the meatpacking plant. A 29-year-old grandmother drunk--clinging to a tree. Children...
...this time Knight was cold and aloof and proud, and the cops were troubled by it. Knight the drunk or Knight the thief they expected and even wanted, but Knight with the Movement was a threat and a challenge. In the jailhouse, they attempted to show him how he had gone wrong. They tried cajoling...
...Richard Boone Show (NBC) has considerable potential because it has freed the accomplished Boone to be anything he likes-lawyer, promoter, bus driver, drunk-in successive, unrelated shows. On NBC, Bob Hope's Chrysler Theater (Hope is the host, not a performer) began with a play by Rod Serling. It was about a modern-day Chippewa who goes back to his town to avenge his father's death. It frequently sounded good. "You have no tribe," said an old redskin. "You are a scar that walks like a man." But the story had a formula slickness...
Next to the electric outlet, hardly any American invention is as omnipresent as ice-cold cola. In bottle, can, cup or glass, cola is drunk from White House to roadhouse, and few Americans can travel far at work or play without finding an automatic cola dispenser handy. In the huge industry that has grown up to satisfy this thirst, 77-year-old Coca-Cola is still by far the leader, with 1962 sales of $568 million and profits of $47 million. Coke's closest competitor is Pepsi-Cola, which has closed part of the gap in the last decade...