Word: rye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade specialist of the Union Bank of Switzerland, however, estimates that "even with the surcharge removed, Swiss watches will be 15% more expensive in America." Certainly not all U.S. consumers will switch to American-made products. Fanciers of Scotch whisky, for instance, are unlikely to opt for bourbon or rye, no matter what happens to the price. Still, higher prices for imports should create more sales and job opportunities in the U.S. industries that compete against them-notably in autos, steel and textiles...
...your article on the Texas State Fair: I have never known a Texan who drank rye whisky, unless he had just moved here from "Fun City." I have heard very few who speak with the accent indicated in the article, but then I live in South Texas, where we speak with a Spanish accent. New York's various boroughs speak a strange English...
Died. Bill Stern, 64, the sportscaster whose fanciful anecdotes ("And that little Italian boy with the baseball bat is now the Pope") earned him the nickname "Aesop of the Airways"; of a heart attack; in Rye, N.Y. A 1935 auto accident cost him a leg and made him a "legal" morphine addict for nearly 20 years, but Stern climbed to the top in radio and then TV sports coverage. His career crumbled when he suffered a nervous breakdown on the air while broadcasting the 1956 Sugar Bowl game for ABC-TV. He then kicked drugs and made a comeback...
...Baptist Church, it is only fitting that the fair should kick off with the annual Texas-Oklahoma game. This Southwestern tribal ritual more closely resembles a vigorous bloodletting in the Circus Maximus than a friendly athletic contest. Instead of musky wine from handwrought goblets, though, the spectators knock down rye whisky from leather-bound flasks while the hot-blooded young gladiators, as they say down home, whup ole Billy outa one another. Turns out, for the first time in five years, it is Oklahoma that does the whupping. By day's end Texas has lost its first-and second...
Died. Spyros P. Skouras, 78, longtime cinema mogul; of a heart attack; in Rye, N.Y. A Greek immigrant 61 years ago, Skouras started his American career as a hotel busboy. He and two brothers bought into a nickelodeon in 1914, then built their $4,000 investment into a chain of moneymaking movie palaces. Skouras also took over the Fox Metropolitan theater group, rescued it from bankruptcy and wound up in 1942 as head of the entire 20th Century-Fox empire. He pioneered revolutionary techniques like CinemaScope and presided over the production of dozens of screen classics, including The Robe...