Word: gins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nicholas Malle-son, member of Britain's advisory commission on drug dependence and currently a visiting professor at M.I.T., agreed and added that it is not even psychologically addictive, "unless you would call my desire to go home after a day's work to have a gin and talk to my wife a psychologically dependent habit...
...just to make sure that overseas bartenders-turned-publicans learn how to mind their milds and bitters, the firm stands ready with a stable of 20 trained barmaids to "train local staffs in typical English fashion." According to Partner Shafran, they come in two styles-"the big-breasted, gin-breath barmaid in a tight black dress, and the pink-cheeked, lusty but innocent type...
...Thais call it gin muong (nation eating). In Chinese, it is known as tan wu (greedy impurity), in Japanese oshoku (dirty job), and to the Pakistanis, it is ooper ki admani (income from above). Every Oriental language has its own phrase for corruption-and in every tongue the words are unpleasantly familiar. All around the rim of mainland China, many Asian nations are making notable progress, but the greatest obstacle remains the furtive hand in the till, the kickback artist, the bagman, the specialist in "squeeze." Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, who has more than his share of corruption...
...blend of old and new, noise and quiet. Richard Schwartz, a bachelor who studied at Cornell ('60), rides to the hounds and plays chess, gives division managers authority on everything from design to advertising, while he concentrates on finances, futures and foulups. His father, who prefers bridge and gin rummy, has moved up to the largely honorary job of chairman, though he personally runs the pioneer division of the corporation that markets the Jonathan Logan juniors and roams through the showrooms to gloat over styles and glower at salesmen. "Now I'm 65," he says, "it gives...
...Songs pamphlet. For hardhitting oratory, they had Michigan Fundamentalist Charles Ewing, who deplored life under the Great Society as "a syncopated Watusi," in which "grey-haired mothers and grandmothers have shortened their skirts, exposed their bones, lit up their cigarettes, put on their war paint and started on a gin blitz for freedom with their bouffant bobs aflappin' in the wind...