Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation noted for its scarcity, Spain's 7 billion gallon surplus of sherry and domestic table wine would seem to be a bonanza. Not so. The average Spaniard scorns the local elixir in favor of spectacularly overpriced bottles of Scotch. Now Spain's Agriculture Minister, Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona, 59, has appealed to his countrymen to ease "the problem of domestic underconsumption." Noting that the Spaniards consume only half as much wine per capita as the Frenchmen, the government is starting a huge advertising campaign for wine-and doubling the import duties on Scotch...
...ringing his powerful shoulders, he is either bare from the waist up or all in glistening white, from open velours shirt to tight jeans and stocking feet. In his left hand, he sometimes totes white ankle boots, in the right a snifter of Chivas Regal Scotch. With his tousled hair and sly brown eyes, he has the smirk of a beach bum who owns the passkey to every cabana on the island. Matrons rush onstage to buss him; others in the S.R.O. house palpitate like palm fronds. Don Ho, 37, is the big noise from Waikiki these days-the biggest...
Salmon, described as "a small man, unmistakably Scotch, a man of very quick temper," soon had all the commissions he could handle. The Boston Daily Advertiser praised him because "his views are always correct, seeming like the present reality of the thing represented." His literalness appealed to Boston's practical Yankees, and until 1840, when he dropped from sight, his client roster included virtually every merchant family in Boston...
...from the precinct house where Cabby Smith was booked, became the first target. A brick smashed the unprotected display window; gallons of liquor poured out -into throats, not gutters. From other liquor stores, Negro looters formed human chains that reached clear around corners. They went first for the imported Scotch (Chivas Regal and Johnny Walker Red Label were the preferred brands), then for the bourbons and gins, next for vodka and champagne and-when everything else ran out-for cheap muscatels and cordials. TV stores were hard-hit. "I can get $500 for this color set," exulted one looter...
...tariff savings. The wholesale price of a $300 Japanese motorcycle will decline to $297 in 1968, finally level out at $286 in 1972. Other reductions will be substantial. Tariffs will fall from 1210 to 60 a gallon for beer, from $1.02 to 510 a gallon for Irish and Scotch whisky. Duties will come down 50% or more on such items as silk scarves (to 16%), diamonds over 1 carat (5%), bone chinaware 17½%, phonographs (5.5%) and nonreptile leather luggage (10%). For budget-minded swingers, duties on yachts over $15,000 will be cut from 10% to 5%, while...