Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Margaret Daly, 79, a Scotch-Irish lady who immigrated to the U.S. in 1922, raised four daughters, the celebrated Daly sisters-Columnist Maggie ("Daly Diary" in Chicago's American) and Sheila (a Chicago Tribune teen column), Novelist Maureen (Seventeenth Summer), and Revlon Vice President Kay; of a stroke; in Manhattan...
...Sociologist Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, the U.S. is really a "triple melting pot," with the true cohesion growing within religious groups. An Irish Catholic is more likely to marry another Catholic (Polish, German or Italian) than a Protestant; similarly, a Protestant Swede tends to marry another Protestant (Finn, Dutch, Scotch, English). In religion and in social relations, minorities still resist amalgamation, although even here the lines are not nearly as sharply drawn as they once were. Besides, the separation is largely voluntary, and characterized by an increasingly cheerful appreciation of one another's differences...
...common sight in Saigon is the row upon row of sidewalk stalls heaped high with everything from hair spray to Scotch to cartons of Salem cigarettes-goods that obviously were filched from American supplies or illegally bought from G.I.s and others with privileges at the post exchange. Last week in Saigon's "PX Alley," police dramatized a new drive to stamp out the huge black-market traffic in American goods by confiscating illegal items from scores of sidewalk shops and tossing them onto a huge bonfire. From now on, pledged a senior police commander, Saigon's sidewalk vendors...
...Jackson hotels and restaurants, a stinger or a Scotch on the rocks was served with a straw. Dry-martini buffs gagged on concoctions as wet-and sometimes as muddy-as Old Man River. The patron who asked for a screwdriver was more apt to get a tool than a tipple. Thus, with more complaint than celebration, Prohibition receded from the last officially dry state in the Union. Since Mississippi's ban on liquor was dropped on July 1, counties with two-thirds of the state's population have voted...
...discussion of the heresy charges against Pike, raised by South Florida's Henry Louttit and subscribed to by more than 30 other prelates. To top it off, Wheeling turned out to be a city without bars, and church officials had to set up a private commissary, with Scotch at $7.50 a fifth...