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...hamburger and 400 Ibs. of hot dogs, 1,500 pieces of fruit, 7,000 candy bars and close to 280 cases of soda (no beer); the women figured on a $2,000 profit for the church. Outside Iowa Falls (pop. 6,454), Robert Eddy and pals set up a keg of suds in his van with a sign proclaiming FREE BEER. At Varina (pop. 140), where the Lions Club put on a spread (ham sandwiches, apples, homemade cookies, hot dogs) outside the elementary school, members thoughtfully spiked rolls of toilet paper on fence posts bordering the usefully protective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Iowa Bikeathon | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...orchestra, Maestro Ozawa enlivened the concert tour by ordering up a traditional, all-forks-barred banquet and decreeing: "Anyone who refuses to wear a kimono will not be invited." Delightedly, the eminent musicians swapped tails for robes. Then, they watched wide-eyed as their kinetic conductor swatted open a keg of sake with a lusty downbeat from a hammer. When the festivities were over, one veteran B.S.O. member opined: "We didn't have this kind of thing the last time we were here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1978 | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...freedom. Well, this situation inspired me to do what I felt was my patriotic duty. Over the next six hours I bought somewhere between 40 and 50 cans of beer (with collected funds, of course). The geek behind the counter loved it. I told him I was the human keg. The M.P. knew, though, but didn't do anything about it. As long as I bought the brew, they could drink it. Uncle Sam moves in mysterious ways...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: Amtrak Blues | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

City Councilor Saundra Graham said yesterday the city manager should investigate the situation and suspend without pay or fire the persons involved. The police "are sitting on a keg of dynamite that will explode if nothing is done to ease the tensions of Blacks and Italians," Graham added...

Author: By Rose C. Palermo, | Title: Mayor Vellucci Urges Order Condemning Racism By Police | 10/26/1977 | See Source »

...Carlo, who for the last seven years had managed to slip into the corner drug store every Sunday while his parents thought he was at Mass, anyone who liked Catholic school qualified as a certifiable madman. Even worse, the kid liked baseball and drank beer like a walking keg and though St. Paul's was a cathedral somewhere. No pretensions, no class. From Day One it was undeclared...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: A real special place | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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