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...That first shot of Scotch or bourbon-consumed, perhaps, during a surreptitious afternoon raid on Dad's liquor cabinet-tasted invariably like oil, or worse. For those who could not acquire the taste for the hard stuff, the answer was abstinence, beer or some sort of cocktail. Today, many liquor companies are gambling that there is a new category of American-those weaned on Tootsie Rolls, malts and Life Savers -who have been panting for something else: a souped-up soft drink...
...archconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson muddied the waters further by promising Nantucketers that he would give them "two or three representatives and maybe a senator" in Concord's legislature; he also pointed out that as undertaxed New Hampshirites, they would be able to buy the same bottle of Scotch that now costs $8.80 for a mere $5. Still, secession is a virtually impossible solution, since both the Massachusetts legislature and the U.S. Congress would have to approve...
...pretty girlfriend. Carlo had no pretensions. But he set out to learn a few. And what better place to learn them than at Harvard, with its musty classrooms and its big-shot professors and its hordes of rich preppies who all wore alligator shirts and drank fine Scotch before going to class? Unfortunately, 8 Prescott St. was not a very good place to learn pretensions...
...hamburger today, and who everybody knew was never even going to have enough money to pay for the relish. But still he was learning, he was watching these people, watching how they dressed and how they talked and how they managed to hide the grimace when they swallowed Scotch on the rocks, which was what they all drank but none of them liked. It was too late to walk out then, when he was learning so much, and when he had come to Harvard to learn about the world...
...brawl (like two of Jimmy Carter's forebears) or hanged. On the other hand, the search can turn up sturdy pioneers and genuine heroes. One resourceful family organization, with the unlikely name of the Southern Bean Association, has recorded the dustups and derring-do of the Scotch-American Bean clan since its arrival in Maryland in 1618. One old Bean helped stir the Mexican-Indian revolt against Spain; another ancestor, Russell, was the first white child born in Tennessee, in 1769. The Clan MacBean tartan was toted to the moon by Astronaut Alan Bean...