Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andrews purports to be the "birthplace of modern golf," but that is open to debate. (Some historians claim that the Dutch invented the game, not the Scotch.) It also purports to be the toughest championship course in the world - and about that, there is no debate at all. The fishhook-shaped Old Course at the Royal and Ancient Golf Club is only 6,926 yds. long - practically puny by American standards. But it is an un-American course. There are stone walls to play over, tiered greens the size of polo fields, and acre upon acre of prickly gorse, heather...
...Spending for household appliances and furniture will more than double, and outlays for clothing and fuel will rise by nearly 70%. As a sort of footnote, the fund also predicted that, while Europe will acquire more expensive tastes in liquor-indeed, the Continent is now busy switching to Scotch -excessive drinking will decrease. It seems that there will be so much to do, buy and see in the Europe of 1975 that there will be less time for liquor, "formerly one of the few solaces...
...smuggler's outlet. Guatemalans smuggle almost anything made in Mexico; Costa Rica's national lottery is pretty unexciting, so Costa Ricans slip in big wads of tickets from Panama, where the payoff is bigger. In Chile Camay soap rates high, since local brands are sudsless-and expensive. Scotch whisky is a durable favorite everywhere. (Enterprising Argentine distillers now produce under license a domestic brand labeled "Old Smuggler," but it cannot quite pass the hangover test, and customers still prefer the imported stuff.) U.S. autos bring a 300% markup on the legal market in Argentina, and there...
...Venezuela police found themselves confiscating the same launch three times-the smugglers simply kept buying it back at auction. In Argentina one crafty operator kept police baffled by using two planes with the same markings and registration-one for smuggling and one for legitimate freight. Other pros ship Scotch in gasoline tankers, diamonds in chunky chocolate bars, cigarettes under false truck floor boards...
...cope with the smugglers, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador are strengthening their border patrols. Practically every nation is tightening customs regulations. Argentina has gone so far as to bar all imports of furs, Scotch, cigarettes, toys, nylons and sporting equipment. But since no one took the trouble to check the stocks at the time of prohibition, storekeepers have inexhaustible inventories left over-naturally-from before...