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Things are going dandily-the boys are $18,000 ahead-but the admiral (Dean Jagger) has noticed signals flashing from MAX's ship and concludes from the Morse that the Russians are attacking. Whereupon: somebody drinks a quart of bourbon and walks a window ledge. Somebody says, "Follow that gondola." The Russian consul pounds a table with his shoe. Somebody falls into a canal. Somebody proposes marriage. Somebody eats a mothball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Follow That Mothball | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...sent them an allowance of only $8 a week. Chambers' mother developed a fear of prowlers, and took to sleeping with an ax under her bed. Chambers himself was soon tucking a knife under his pillow. Chambers' brother became an alcoholic, and killed himself by drinking a quart of whisky and cushioning his head on a pillow inside an oven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: Death of the Witness | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...divided them into two general groups. Nonproblem drinkers include the "occasionals" (45 million), who drink less than a pint of whisky each month, the moderates (6 million), whose intake is about three-quarters of a pint a week apiece and the social drinkers (7.5 million), who account for a quart each per week. Problem drinkers are weighed by the day. Pre-alcoholics (4.1 million) each drink just under a pint a day, while the full-fledged alcoholic (5.4 million) drinks just a little bit more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: A Billion Quarts | 7/21/1961 | See Source »

...Quart of milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: What Good Old Days? | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

...storied corps that for 130 years had fought France's worst battles, from the Crimea to Dienbienphu. Today's legionnaire is a downright gentleman compared with his counterpart of the old days, who greased his feet, wore no socks, lived on bread, cheese and a quart of red wine. But none ever better earned the nickname "the Legion of Death" than the present (mostly German and Hungarian) legionnaires, who took 10,000 casualties in Indo-China, 1,236 in Algeria. "Scram, carrion!" a guard shouted defiantly to newsmen last week. "You will not see the Legion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Soul Searching | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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