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Increasingly, the booze is vodka, which for the past six years has shown the fastest-growing sales for liquor in the U.S. Businessmen like it in lunchtime martinis, in Bull Shots or Bloody Marys, because it leaves no after-breath. Purists are learning to drink it the way the Poles and Russians have for cen turies: straight and cold. Among artists in the Long Island Hamptons, this summer's favorite was 100-proof Polish Bison Brand Vodka, which comes flavored with a thin piece of stiff grass (the herb Zubrowka) in every bottle...
...whizzy world of two-wheeled transportation, Honda Motors Co. of Japan has long since lapped the field. Honda's U.S. export models are the fastest selling numbers since the salad day of the Harley-Davidson. Its cycles take home most of the prizes in international racing. Its new, lightweight "Little Honda" motor bike sells like soy sauce in Japan, will be introduced in the U.S. next year at about $100. And now the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer is tooling up for a sharp turn into the international auto market...
Harvard's prodigy Doug Hardin zipped across the finish line 46 seconds ahead of the Huskies' sophomore Bob Bruen to take first. Hardin ran the 4.8-mile roller-coaster course in 23:14 -- the fastest time ever clocked by a Harvard harrier at Franklin Park...
Sealed Destiny. Los Angeles is probably the fastest-growing city in the history of the world. No European laid eyes on it until 1769, when an expedition of Spanish explorers came upon an Indian village called Yang-na and renamed the site Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles-Our Lady Queen of the Angels. Twelve years later, the area was settled by 44 low-caste peons (including ten Negroes) from Mexico. The pueblo came under American occupation in 1846, was incorporated (pop. 1,610) in 1850-the same year that California received statehood...
...established fact that inflation is spreading across the U.S. economy at the fastest rate in years. Since January, the prices consumers pay for goods and services have shot up at a 3½-a-year pace. Last week the Labor Department reported that consumer prices rose .4% in July-the sixth monthly gain in a row. This lifted the nation's consumer price index to a record 113.3, or 13.3% above the base average of the years 1957-59. On top of that, wholesale prices-which normally foreshadow the future course of consumer prices-gained .7% in July after...