Word: soda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gets to see a game is by buying a season ticket-and even that, like joining a country club, takes years of waiting. Green Bay's youngsters save their pennies in kiddy banks in the shape of green-and-gold-suited Packers. Portraits of Packer players hang on soda fountain walls; restaurant diners eat their soup off "Know-Your-Packers" doilies. The pastors of some Green Bay churches end their sermons with a short, earnest prayer "for our Packers," and the police force feels the same way. "The only crime here." says Chief Elmer Madson, "is when the Packers...
...close the first session of the Second Vatican Council. Meanwhile in Boston, Richard Cardinal Gushing, 67, allowed as how he, too, suffers from a stomach ailment-bleeding ulcers-and recalled discussing it two months ago with the Pontiff. Warmly sympathetic, the Pope recommended a little bicarbonate of soda before going to bed. "Your Holiness," replied Gushing, "thank God you're not infallible when prescribing medicine. That's the worst thing you can take for ulcers...
...quickly from Newport that it left behind its paymaster and his moneybags. On payday Lieut. James Eilberg, the supply officer, doled out the ship's petty-cash hoard of $9,500, then collected money as it was spent in the ship's store, post office and "gedunk" (soda shop), and parceled it back out until everyone was paid...
Came the G.I.s. When they wanted something stronger than beer, Kotobukiya was waiting for them. Soon the Japanese, emulating their conquerors, began to say kanpai (cheers) over Scotch and soda. Out flowed 86-proof Old Suntory, now $4.50 a fifth. For undemanding palates, Kotobukiya also puts out 74-proof Torys, a throat burner that sells for 85? a near fifth (21.6 fluid oz.). Last year Kotobukiya Ltd. bottled 6,000.000 gallons of Suntory and Torys, had profits of $5.5 million on sales of $66 million. This year it expects a gross of $75 million...
Averting a Lynching. On the touchy issue of race relations, the Independent was remarkably outspoken for its time. "The Jew and the Negro are not unlike our own people." said the Bank Clerk, a front-page character who held weekly colloquies with the Soda Jerker. "We have our own ignorant, vulgar, loudmouthed, swaggering, chiseling white Christian Nordics." Soda Jerker: "Yes, but with this difference: the Jew and the Negro are minorities and we are in the majority. Our own breed of jackasses so far outnumber us that we long ago gave up the idea of handling them." When a twelve...