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What travel-writer's trip to Cambridge, what Harvard Student's stroll to the post office, is complete without pause at that 1967 Xanadu, the Brattle theatre. A grenadine and soda at the Blue Parrot, a bourbon and branch water at the Casa-blanca, and then a Singapore Sling at the Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney...
...Walgreen's belief [July 28] that the malted milk shake originated in his organization. Not so. Before, during, and after World War I, I was myself making them at soda fountains in the Middle West, as were probably a good many thousand other soda jerks. Later, the thick malted milk came along, the one that was called a "gedunk...
...Negro was making the rounds in La Paz, calling on Bolivians to make their nation a "strategic center of continental revolution." To win over peasants in the countryside, the guerrillas-apparently financed by Cuba-often pay double prices at the local stores as a friendly gesture, and buy soda pop for the kids; one of their doctors recently performed an appendectomy on a farm worker...
...neighboring wives rushed to his drugstore on Chicago's South Side, where they found not only Walgreen-produced pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, but hot meals cooked to Myrtle's recipes. As business boomed, Charlie continued to innovate. One of his best known products emerged in 1921, when a soda jerk invented the malted milk shake...
Instructions Included. The test seems to be working well, according to the distributor, Businessman Ram Saran Dass. Packets of the contraceptives are conspicuously hung up in groceries and betel-nut shops, and they are sold alongside candy, soda, neckties and other household items. All display India's ubiquitous family-planning emblem-a red triangle around a drawing of a family of four, the official ideal. The condoms carry the brand name Nirodh, a Sanskrit word roughly translatable as "freedom from fear." Indian men have been enthusiastic customers, partly because the contraceptives cost less than 2? for a packet...