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...this World Cup, hundreds of police armed with attack dogs, tear-gas launchers and riot gear patrol the streets of Bilbao in armored personnel carriers. The enemy: England's 20,000-strong youthful ragtag army of fans, feared throughout the Continent, loose in the land of cheap vino. They spilled from bar doorways and windows and gathered to taunt the restrained but ready Spanish police before England's match with France two weeks ago. England won, 3-1. One lad slurred: "These here cops are wankers. Our boys'll have 'em right...
Harvard Band, Treas Intramural Sports J.V. Baseball South House Committee Motto--in Vino Veritas...
...customers sample their wines. The law, introduced by Democratic State Representative Daniel Pokaski, is the only one of its kind in the U.S. Unlike most types of standard-brand hard liquor, most wines are a mystery until they are sampled, Pokaski points out. Retailers enthusiastically endorse the veritas in vino policy. And after a month of on-the-house sampling, store owners report no freeloading lines outside or winos inside...
...Germans call it Schmiergeld (grease money), though export traders usually simply say N.A. for niitzliche Abgabe (useful contribution). In France, where there is veritas in the vino, a payoff is called a pot-de-vin or jug of wine. The Italians refer to a bribe as a bustarella (little envelope). Under-the-table payments in East Africa go by the sobriquet chai, Swahili...
...cost of boozing has been confusing. Pints, fifths, quarts, half-gallons and gallons are being replaced in stores by new-size bottles. The quart, for instance, is being supplanted by a container holding 1 liter (a good slurp more than the old bottle); a half-gallon jug of vino now comes in a 1.5-liter size, while the half-gallon of hard stuff has become a 1.75-liter container. Judging the better buy between sizes is enough to drive an Einstein to drink. A handy tool to avert befuddlement is "The Liquor & Wine Pocket Saver," a small slide rule that...