Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opulent gambling club. In the past two years, bingo palaces and betting shops have mushroomed throughout the country, which some now call "the windfall state." These days, more than 3,500,000 "insular" Britons go abroad each year-mostly to the Continent, where darts and marmalade and tea at 4:30 are now an accepted part of the rites of summer. Britons are better educated and in better health than ever before-and need pay no doctors' bills...
...showed the way for the rest of us. Think of all the history here in Massachusetts and our wonderful museums. These are the things a first lady can get attention focused on." While first ladyship will bring new opportunities, she does not propose to relinquish one particular Peabody tradition: tea for Toni in bed, proffered gallantly each morning by her husband, who then cooks breakfast for the children. Chub has been performing this duty ever since the two were married...
...second half, the Crimson kicked the Bulldog in the teeth on a cold and bitter afternoon in the Stadium. While vendors hawked tea in the stands, Bill Taylor confused the Yale stalwarts again and again with magnificent punting under heavy Eli pressure, dazzling running, and general excellence. A Yale touchdown, achieved by running a punt back to the end zone while the Harvard team blocked itself off the field, gave the game a sense of drama, but Harvard's line, by then strong and experienced, had too much finesse and skill to be fooled by Yale's generally feeble offensive...
Current chairman of Brooke Bond is Gerald's son John, now 50, who has expanded his hard-sell heritage. Brooke Bond now sells six brands of tea, which it markets in 80 countries at prices ranging from 42? a lb. to $2.24. In India 65 million cups of Brooke Bond tea are downed daily, and in tea-rich Ceylon, housewives increasingly pass up home-grown bulk tea for Brooke Bond "packets." ("This," says Brooke, "is an achievement akin to selling refrigerators to Eskimos.") In Canada its Red Rose brand has pulled abreast of Salada as the national favorite...
That Famous Party. Fervent apostles of loose tea leaves and six-minute brewing, Brooke Bond's bosses are shocked by such U.S. aberrations as bagged, instant and iced tea. Nonetheless, the company is now pushing south from Canada, has begun marketing Red Rose in border areas such as New England, northern New York and the Pacific Northwest. So far, Red Rose's best U.S. market has turned out to be Boston. Says Brooke Bond Sales Director Roy Furber with only a hint of a smile: "I suppose it goes back to that famous tea party...