Word: pubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After its own try around the course, instead of taking other pub-crawlers' word for it, TIME concedes that thirsty Londoners can, by careful planning, rack up 14½ hours of drinking time in 24. By judicious changing of pubs, they can drink from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., and from 5 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.-enough to set even Big Ben spinning...
...chief justice of the state supreme court. This proud, stubborn, able, unpredictable barrister is remembered in the U.S. as the Australian Foreign Minister who took a leading part in launching the U.N. and served as president of its General Assembly. In the lobbies of Canberra and in every pub from Perth to Brisbane, he is commonly held to be the blankety-blank who led the once-powerful Australian Labor Party to ruin...
...that the government "give urgent consideration to this question," Home Secretary Rab Butler was ready to make good a historic promise. Her Majesty's government, he told Parliament, would do something about the nation's crazy-quilt licensing laws at last. As things stand now, a London pub may stay open only nine hours each weekday, and these hours must be divided into 'one period around lunchtime and one period in the evening. But since each borough or local council can fix its own hours, no one can be sure just when "Time, gentlemen" will be called...
...Where? The most ludicrous aspect of the licensing laws is the fact that they can turn a man into the most desperate kind of pub crawler: with a little ingenuity, a good map, and much patience he can drink legally around the clock in London...
...starts out at a pub with a normal closing time. At 10:30 or11 p.m., he moves on to Paddington Station's Running Donkey, which serves thirsty porters until 3 a.m. After that he dashes over to Smithfield Market, where he can drink until 6 a.m. with the city's meat loaders. Then, it's off to Kemble's Head at Covent Garden, where the vegetable loaders can drink until 8:30 a.m. Next comes The Cock at Euston Station and, finally, The Eagle at Southwark, which opens after lunchtime closing and closes at evening opening...