Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company's Canadian founder and president, credits the switch to lightness to the influence of women, who prefer drinks without a lingering taste, and of young people, who find the "lights" easier to learn on. "Basically," argues Chairman John Martin of Heublein, which specializes in vodka (Smirnoff) and ready-mixed cocktails, "Americans don't like the taste of alcohol-it's too strong for them." Slightly more than half of the liquor Americans drink is still considered heavy by the new standards-such as bourbons and most blends-but a dozen years ago the "heavies" accounted...
...gang of crooks led by the chief of the Tselinograd Trade Board faked reports, rigged phony prices, and sold meat, butter and automobiles on the black market; in Pavlodar, three men managed to make off with no fewer than 300,000 bottles of wine and vodka. The entire party and government leadership of the Kzyl Orda region masterminded a ring of cattle rustlers: the local Communist chief organized blackjack games and set off an "epidemic of gambling...
...attitudes no 1963 playgoer can sustain. Tovarich needed a boldly inventive face lifting, but its book and lyrics sadly sag. Its tune-shy music may please any metronomes in the audience. Sample wit: "Let's go down to the kitchen and get a potato and make our own vodka." Sample lyric...
Actually, Eva Six was really Eva Klein. After the Nazis murdered her father, though, the family adopted the name of Kennedi (apparently a centuries-old aristocratic name in Hungary which is obviously unsuited to the screen). Using 20 bottles of vodka for bribes, she fled Hungary during the revolution in 1956 and migrated to the United States...
...stewardess, her nose peeling after a day on a Cuban beach, brought breakfast-caviar, lettuce, salty smoked salmon to begin with; a small beefsteak with potatoes and green Cuban tomatoes to follow; a piece of cake and an orange for dessert, with coffee. As first-class passengers, we got vodka and wine; tourist passengers got nothing stronger than mineral water, and three civil engineers from Leningrad complained loudly. "It's regulations, comrades," said the stewardess stiffly. At last one engineer remembered the bottle of Cuban rum he had bought at the airport, and things got livelier...