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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S discourse on the growing popularity of vodka [Oct. 14] reminds me of the Air Force general who admonished his Martini-drinking Pentagon staff to lay off the stuff. "Drink whisky at lunchtime," he told them. "I'd rather have people know you're drunk than think you're stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1966 | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Here in Los Angeles vodka has been run over by a contraption known as a Mexican Edsel-half tequila, half V8. (Wow! It sure doesn't taste like tomato juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1966 | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...Montreal recently, two fellow drinkers and I invented the Rose Between Two Thorns: vodka (one thorn). Dubonnet (the rose) and gin (the other thorn) on the rocks with a twist of lemon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 28, 1966 | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...Polish Bison Brand Vodka [Oct. 14]? A Bog-Fog? Better a Yucca-Flats. Merely have at hand four quarts of vodka, 15 3-oz. bottles of maraschino cherries, ten mashed oranges, lemons and limes-plus rinds, 1 lb. of cane sugar, 10 lbs. of ice cubes, and proceed to dump the whole mess into a wastebasket. Stirring recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1966 | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

...discovered why the artists of the Hamptons, the Russians and the Poles prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled potato. My frothy, fuchsia discovery, dubbed "The Volga Boatman," was a pretty drink. But one sip told me it was aptly named. It tasted like river silt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 21, 1966 | 10/21/1966 | See Source »

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