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...some troubled drinkers think they are getting less belt from their highballs these days, they are right. Many liquor companies have been putting more distilled water and less alcohol into whisky and gin. During the past 20 months, the distillers of more than 100 labeled brands, including Seagram's 7 Crown, Four Roses, Hiram Walker's Imperial American blended whisky and Jim Beam bourbon, have reduced the proof from 86 to 80-without lowering the price or advertising the fact beyond printing the new proof on bottle labels. (Proof is twice the percentage of alcohol: an 86-proof...
After the game, the great man theory of football is perpetuated over gin and tonics. Kubacki, Davenport, Emper's great tackle, and McDermott's spectacular catch won the game...
Drugs were probably responsible for her current condition. On April 14, apparently depressed over personal problems, she took some tranquilizers, then went to a bar to celebrate a friend's birthday. After drinking gin and tonic, she began, as one friend put it, "to nod out." Thomas French, 22, helped Karen out of the tavern, then the group took her home and put her to bed, where she passed out. When French looked in on her a few moments later, he realized that she was more than drunk. "I just looked at her and I realized she wasn...
Karen Ann Quinlan mysteriously collapsed shortly after drinking gin and tonic with friends. She had apparently taken some tranquilizers earlier, and the combination caused her "to nod out at the bar," as one of the friends put it. He took her to the house she was visiting, and she passed out. He attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, then called an ambulance. After six months in the hospital, her mother says, she "isn't really living any more...
...they are responsible for their own "perpetual subjugation"). What did Amin like? Beyond Washington's more conciliatory Third World policy, which he said "has lit, cleansed and inspired" the developing countries, his approval seemed limited to Uganda's tourist attractions. They included "the unforgettable waragi" (a local gin-and-vodka concoction) and "rare, huge but extremely shy gorillas...