Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year. Please send two copies each week-one to Nip and one to Nap. Nap gets to the box before I do." A little investigation cleared up the mistake. It seems that twin brother Nip (christened Willie but always called Nip because he drank so much milk as a baby) began subscribing to TIME in 1945. He would read it first, then pass the copy along to Nap (christened Walter but always called Nap because he slept so much as a child), who finally got tired of secondhand copies and bought a subscription...
...wine every day to its soldiers, the whole thing sounded like some wild practical joke. Diminutive, dynamic Premier Pierre Mendès-France had tilted his lance successfully at many a sturdy French windmill, but this-name of a dog, it was like asking a cat to give up milk...
Decrees for Drunks. The fact was, however, that milk-drinking Mendès, who has little use for wine, was not kidding. Many of the liquor reforms he advocated last week went into immediate effect as government decrees. In one swoop, he ordered all bars to stop selling hard liquor between the hours of 5 and 10 a.m., when most French laborers take their morning eye-opener. One day each week the bars must shut down completely. No new bars are to be opened near schools or barracks...
When Mendès himself appeared at the recent Radical-Socialist Party congress, drinking a glass of milk and urging all of the delegates "to do the same thing," he was greeted with roars of laughter. By last week the laughter was abating. Liquor interests, thirsty workmen, café owners, bartenders, home-brewers and, indeed, most of France's hard-drinking population, were mobilizing to combat the threat to their national pastime. They form a large bloc: one Frenchman in seven is involved in the making of wine; alcohol is France's largest industry, grossing some 675 billion...
...Slow Kill. Thanks to government reforms over the past few years, the nation that produced Louis Pasteur has got around to pasteurizing the milk in most French cities, and tap water is reasonably pure if a little flat. Frenchmen, if they will, could find plenty of other beverages to drink. Most of them, however, will probably continue to incline to the opinion that milk is for cats, water for crops...