Word: rum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the end of World War II, the Railway Express Agency and its rum bling green trucks have been rolling toward a dead end. Jointly owned by 58 railroads, the sprawling company has been plagued by inefficiency and red tape. The main reason: its ties to railroads impose on it the same night marish maze of regulations that the Interstate Commerce Commission ap plies to REA's parents. Without special ICC permission, REA cannot haul goods from city to city by truck; instead it must put the goods on a train - no mat ter how bad the connection...
...land, and by 1832 the citizens in the eight Eastern states were spending $66.4 million on lotteries, or more than four times the national expenditure. In the late 19th century, the reformers began pitching their tents in the fairgrounds and crying out against gamblers as "a lying, perjured, rum-soaked and libidinous lot." U.S. Protestantism was especially hostile to gambling, which it saw as luring people into extravagance and away from work. By 1910, most states had passed antigaming laws, and gradually gambling went underground-or underworld. Says Gambling Historian Henry Chafetz: "Men had shot and killed each other across...
...when somebody came up and said: "There's a little girl outside asking for something to eat." It was a pretty cute surprise when he went out and found British Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 48, along with Partner Rudolf Nureyev, 28, and seven friends, all clamoring for some rum and Chinese goodies after a performance of the touring Royal Ballet. Two hours later, the merrymakers danced off into the night-and now it was the San Francisco police department's turn to be surprised. At 3 a.m. cops answered a call to turn off a noisy hippie party...
...quit school in 1932 at age 17 with sisters Maxine, then 14, and Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Rum Go. For all Stephens' daring with the new $350,000 boat, he admits that "I have my fingers crossed. We'll just have to see how it works." If it doesn't, the seven-member Intrepid syndicate has Constellation in reserve. Mosbacher has already been putting Constellation to use on weekend sail-handling drills, looking over a 27-man crew for the ten who will eventually make up his first team. Whatever boat Mosbacher sails, he expects a rum go from at least two other U.S. hopefuls: a rebuilt Columbia, which is being...