Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pisco, a powerful grape brandy, is a Peruvian national institution. Haughty hacendados and barefoot Indian peasants swig it at births and wakes; special bottles are kept tucked away for anniversaries and visits from old friends. Its type and flavor depend largely on the grapes from which it is made; Peruvians say they can tell something about a man's character by the type he orders...
Habitués of the Cantina de los Médicos swear that a man once given up for dead by Lima doctors was brought to the cantina as a last resort. There the barman reached for la botella especial-the special bottle tucked away under the bar. After the bartender had dealt him a single snort, the dying man arose from his litter and walked away. He had drunk pisco ^from a rough, clear glass bottle in which was coiled, eyes open, a green garter snake...
Last week, with the air of a man who had stood for such nonsense long enough, President Miguel Alemán announced that his government would spend $88 million in the next two years to overhaul Mexico's railways. His plan (prepared by a special commission appointed last February): 1) convert every line in the country to standard gauge; 2) eliminate the steep grades and kinky turns that cause most wrecks; 3) gradually modernize rolling stock. The President called on his Finance Minister to find the necessary funds, which will probably be raised through new taxation. "The railways," Aleman...
...concerned. Bebop, the newest fad in such concerts, left him cold. "Hell, Bach did more bebop in one piece than those guys have ever done." Still, he couldn't quite see his reddish-brown hair at Carnegie-Hall length either; the audiences there were "too special, too chi-chi." He settled on a middle solution: playing Carnegie-Hall stuff for a bebop public. He foresaw that it would be a little "like attacking the Great Wall of China with a nail file." Last week, nonetheless, he hustled into the experiment...
...Special citations for special programs: New York City's WNEW, Rocky Mountain Radio Council, Boston's Lowell Institute Cooperative Broadcasting Council, San Francisco's KNBC, Savannah's WDAR, western radio stations (for service during last year's blizzard...