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...clientele is definitely worth observing, even if it is not always worth joining. Usually, I think the Casablanca is a fine place, but lately I'm a little down on it because when I went there to celebrate Hank Aaron's 715th home run, I was served a weak scotch-on-the-rocks. In my innocence, I did not know such a thing was possible, but this drink was pretty pathetic. I nursed the alcohol along for a good five minutes (quite an accomplishment) but it took me another half an hour to finish...
...total quantity of alcohol in a drink and the rate of consumption determine the alcohol level in the bloodstream. Thus a Scotch and water would pack the same punch as Scotch on the rocks or a Scotch and soda if all three were drunk at the same speed; drinking more slowly gives the system a chance to eliminate some of the alcohol. The mixing of different types-beer, wine, whisky and brandy, for instance-might make a drinker sick, but it would not make him any more drunk than the same alcoholic measure of just one of these drinks...
...turned out that she did not have cancer, but she went on drinking anyway, "right around the clock." Although she sipped almost a fifth of Scotch a day, it did not seem to affect her work. "I never got really drunk, never had a hangover." One night while waiting for a date she took an extra slug of Scotch "to be bright and special." Instead she stumbled and cut her forehead on the mantel. Her date found her bloodied and bleary and walked out. This shocked her so much that she went...
Coach Hank Stram-who had been scheduled to conduct twice-daily clinics on the pro game. "We shaved with champagne and brushed our teeth with Scotch," says Palmeri. "It really was an adventure. We were all one big family...
...Warm Scotch. TIME reporters who covered their return at Kennedy International Airport found them still in fine fettle. "Anyone can go on a cruise and say it was lovely and fun," said New Yorker Diane Holze. "But we were part of the news. We were making news and enjoying it." "Anyone," added one wag, "who claims it was a horror tale is guilty of a base cunard." Some passengers were talking of an annual reunion aboard the Q.E. 2-in New York harbor. Dr. George Lawrence vowed that his yacht club at Bayside, N.Y., would in future serve all veterans...