Word: scotches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Richard G. Drew, 81, Minnesota-born inventor who in 1930, as a laboratory assistant for what is now the 3M Co., combined a glue and glycerin stickum with a strip of transparent cellophane to form Scotch tape; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...gourmet business is obviously prospering on the small clientele that is willing to pay $30 per lb. for Scotch salmon or $345 for a 14-oz. tin of fresh Russian Beluga caviar. But the shops are also attracting large numbers of middle class customers who believe food is more than just fuel...
...coolly as his boycott. But none of the athletes disrupted the proceedings with demonstrations, as rumor suggested they might. Almost to a person, they seemed genuinely touched by the Olympic Committee's efforts to recognize them - and to lift their spirits. Renaldo Nehemiah, 21, the splendid sprinter from Scotch Plains, N.J., spoke for most everyone when he said: "With the people's appreciation, it's not a total loss...
...laundry fluttering from the tethered craft; dejected skippers passing the waiting hours with poker games and the Cuban favorite, dominoes. To provide for the boatmen's diminishing supplies, the port had set up floating stores with exorbitant prices: a take-out chicken dinner cost $30, a bottle of Scotch...
...some administrative costs and put only one or two additional pounds into the hands of the average family of four. That is not likely to impress most people, who flocked to pubs last week to drink up before the new taxes went into effect, and laid in cases of Scotch and gin to beat the $1.10 increase on each bottle...