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...Casablanca equally devoid of its usual group of sociables. The ironic thing about it all was that the crackdown had nothing to do with college excesses or even with bars. A fourteen year-old boy was found in very bad shape due to the effects of a quart of Scotch from a local package store. The Alcoholic Beverage Commission moved in, everywhere, with a vengeance...
...government spending. Items: cutbacks in construction programs for nationalized railroads and coal mines, delay in school building. To save another $106 million, he cut the government subsidy on bread and milk. Result will be to make British housewives pay one penny more for each loaf of bread and quart of milk. "Inflation must be mastered if our personal lives are not to be darkened by continual anxiety and uncertainty, and our country's position in the world seriously undermined," he warned...
...keep it up, a man might have to drink a quart of milk every day of his life. It is no accident that the American Dairy Association has financed Researchers Campbell and Petersen...
...contenders stepped up to compete for his crown. Each deposited ?2 on a table as a sign of good faith, then, at a signal from the local referees, they went to work. At the end of 45 minutes, Contender Eric Forster was well out in front, with a full quart of brandy inside him. He groped unsteadily to his feet, demanded recognition as the new king, fell to the floor and, three minutes later, died. This was the big chance for Willie Jardine, who poured himself a final tumblerful and, like his rival, downed it in one gulp. A moment...
...Cabinet voted to increase its buying up of wine and distribute it in weekly rations of about a quart apiece to the country's "economically feeble," i.e., paupers, sick people over 60, everyone over 65. The Cabinet also recommended that the Defense Ministry increase by 50% the army's ration, now a pint of rough red pinard a day. In doing so, the government neatly canceled out former Premier Mendés-France's campaign to cut down on winebibbing among the soldiery. By Mendés-France's order, the serving of milk is obligatory...