Word: gins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter, at Manhattan's Drake Room, who has patrolled the bar beat for 30 years, is generally considered the dean of cocktail pianists. A sometime composer, he plays novel and harmonically inventive arrangements, numbers among his devotees such celebrities as Noel Coward and Lynda Bird Johnson. Sipping gin and Coca-Cola, he holds forth six nights a week from 6 p.m. until 1 a.m., earns $20,000 a year. He cannot abide sing-along customers, discourages them by "changing keys so often that they become confused." - Ernie Swann, at Detroit's Salamandre room, prides himself on living...
...five-year career as an elected official, Jim Garrison, 45, the larger-than-life (6 ft. 6 in.) district attorney of New Orleans, has tilted at windmills and gin mills, chastened Bourbon Street's once-famed B-girls, scourged the judiciary and battled with the mayor. More recently, he added the Warren Commission report to his mandate. Predictably, Garrison's investigation of "several plots" to kill President Kennedy has yielded the most rococo tale yet to emerge from that tragic day in Dallas...
Screaming and blowing whistles, the North Vietnamese blasted their way through the wire with bangalore torpedoes, then rushed in with flamethrowers. Korean Captain Chung Kyong Gin, 32, swiftly sent two squads to plug the holes in the wire, then set his men loose to kill the Reds trapped inside the perimeter. It was knife to knife and hand to hand-and in that sort of fighting the Koreans, with their deadly tae kwon do (a form of karate), are unbeatable. When the action stopped shortly after dawn, 104 enemy bodies lay within the wire, many of them eviscerated or brained...
...foregone conclusion that as soon as LSD became the daring, far-out thing to take, entrepreneurs would be gin to peddle psychedelic accessories -the stuff to take on the trip. The paraphernalia ranges from such objects of contemplation as a polished cow's tooth ($2.50) to poster-size enlargements of current underground heroes such as Lenin, Dostoevsky and Oscar Wilde. But not even Thomas DeQuincey in his wildest opium-pipe dream could have imagined the success that such accessory shops are beginning to enjoy...
...devoured all the newspapers he could get, eagerly sifting every line of print to find his name. He did crossword puzzles and browsed through dozens of books (Perry Mason mysteries, sexy novels, the Warren Report, an abstruse volume of erotica titled Virginity-Pre-Nuptial Rites and Rituals). He played gin rummy indefatigably with his jailers, who claimed he cheated. He did situps, pushups, and stood on his head for exercise. He seemed out of his mind much of the time...