Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case you've forgotten, Miss Littlewood is the gal who founded London's Theatre Workshop, where she introduced the works of playwrights like Brendan Behan and shelagh Delaney, trained many performers, and generally ruled over the most vigorous theatrical institution in the city until she suddenly gave it up two years...
Whatever happened to Chopsticks'? In Tokyo, Japanese jazzmen fell in line to jam with Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 49, packing them in on a five-week barnstorm tour of Japan. His regular cats augmented with local talent-including a belting new gal vocalist, Mayumi Kuroda, 21-Hamp gave the customers "integrated music" stomped out by an "Asiatic Harlem" band. "The more I travel," says he, "the more I'm convinced that jazz isn't native to the States. These boys can read the flyspecks off wallpaper...
...biggest, consists of just six lines, which do not even tell what products the company handles. The huge Solvay chemicals trust refuses to give the exact number of its plants, and Munich's Löwenbräu holds back from publishing its annual output (24 million gal.). Others delay what figures they do publish: Switzerland's Frisia oil company has just got around to publishing its 1961 report-showing a loss that amounts to nearly half its share capital...
Even more dramatic is the sudden emergence of Scotch as the status tipple in Europe. West Germany imported 504,131 gal. of Scotch in 1959; last year the total was up to 808,919 gal., and the estimates for 1962 run to 1,000,000. "It's the thing to drink if you want to belong to the Oberen Zehntausend [upper ten thousand]," explained a Bonn bartender. Smart Italians ask for their "ooeesky" Us do (straight) or con ghiàccio (on the rocks), and hosts pour their guests hefty slugs in large glasses, which are then nursed...
Scotch consumption in France was held down by miniscule import quotas until 1960. But in 1961 the French imported 841,459 gal., and by the end of this year will have drunk considerably more. Cognac, however, is not on the rocks: during the same period its worldwide sales jumped from about 9 million to some 13 million bottles...